Burglar evades police clutches for 10 months

Hyderabad: A notorious robber from Hyderabad involved in 38 burglaries and accused of disposing stolen gold in Dubai through human smugglers has kept police teams of Cyberabad and Rachakonda on their toes for the past 10 months.

The robber’s strategy to stay out of the police radar is not to use electronic gadgets to communicate with his family or his gang.

Mohammed Khaleel alias Chor Khaleel alias Shareef of Hyderabad, along with his close aide Nunsavath Shiva alias Jabbar and a team of ten members were involved in 38 crimes at Tuljapur and Sholapur in Maharashtra, Wanaparthi, Nagarkurnool, Kothakota, Pebber, Rajendra Nagar and Vanasthalipuram in Telangana, Kurnool and Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh.

Infamous for his modus operandi, Khaleel chooses three different persons for every operation. He changes the gang each time so that they do not leave behind any clues for the police to trace him. Also not using a mobile phone is Khaleel’s way of keeping the police on the run. He only uses public telephone booths to contact his family, especially his wife, who is in Aurangabad.

Khaleel and his aide Shiva were last seen by the police in November last year before they got bail. They were arrested in June 2017 and were lodged at Chanchalguda Central Prison, where they became friends and formed a gang. According to sources, recently, in July, the police teams of Cyberabad, Hyderabad and Rachakonda, learnt about a telephone call to his wife. 

The call was from a public telephone booth in Narsaraopet in Guntur of Andhra Pradesh. The police rushed there, but he escaped.

Senior police officials said, “Several teams have been working on clues to nab Khaleel and Shiva. Four of their gang members were held in March this year, but the duo is still at large.”

The teams are closer to the target (Khaleel) and he will be nabbed soon.”

The kingpin was also accused of sending gold to Dubai via a smuggler and parcels to turn them into cash, using another gang member. Though the teams earlier could recover the receipts of money transfer from Dubai to Khaleel, he could not be tracked.