Nayeemuddin was used against Maoists

Hyderabad: The saying one who lives by the sword dies by it aptly describes renegade Naxal Nayeemuddin. But his case is different from that of other gangsters.

Nayeem turned into a big time operative with the help of united AP police officials, sources said. Nayeem was used by the police extensively in anti Maoist operations particularly for targeting rights activists but later he became a tough nut to crack.

A senior TS police official said, “Before  2004 during the TD regime Nayeem grew big and was pampered. But later the story changed.” Nayeem was named in the Sohrabuddin encounter case of Gujarat for assisting Gujarat police to pick up Sohrabauddin. The CBI named him in the case.

Investigators suspect that Nayeem was the person who had persuaded Sohrabuddin and his wife Kauser Bi to come to Hyderabad in November 2005. Nayeem also ran several counter insurgent groups like the Kakatiya Cobras, Green Cobras etc.

Nayeem killed rivals brutally
Nayeemuddin killed rivals brutally, and used devious ways to get out of murder cases. Nayeem generally used women to trap his rivals; and he had a host of them at his beck and call. Many of his adversaries were killed as they walked into traps set by one or another woman by way of an invitation extended to them to visit her at odd times. In the elimination of ex-Naxals Eedanna, V. Ganesh Babu, Samba Shivudu alias Konapuri Ailaiah and his brother Konapuri Ramulu and founder of Revolutionary Patriotic Tigers (RPT) Patolla Govardhan Reddy, the gangster adopted the same modus-operandi.

Besides this, he used to arrange others to surrender as accused in the murder cases he was involved in. Although Nayeem was an accused in the murders of civil liberties' leaders Purushotham, Niranjan, Sriramulu, Narra Prabhakar Reddy, Mallesh, Azam Ali and Belli Lalitha, police could not get any evidence because of his modus operandi.