Telangana Govt Suspends 5 Police Officers For Links With Gangster Nayeem 

Hyderabad: After more than nine months of investigation, the Telangana State police suspended five police officers for having links with Maoist-turned-gangster Mohammed Nayeemuddin, who was killed in an encounter in Shadnagar near the city last year.

Additional superintendent of police, CID, Maddipati Srinivas Rao, ACP Mirchowk, Mallineni Srinivas Rao, ACP, Detective department, M. Chintamaneni Srinivas, Inspector of Kothagudem Rajagopal and Inspector, Traffic, Sangareddy, Mastan Vali were found having direct links with the gangster.

Telangana State Director General of Police Anurag Sharma, who issued the suspension orders on Thursday, also ordered an oral inquiry of four other officers and ordered that department action be taken against 16 other officers who were found to be associated with Nayeem and worked ‘hand in glove’ with him when he operated in the then Nalgonda, Mahabubnagar and Rangareddy districts in Telangana.

The officers against whom departmental action will be taken are Additional SP Amarender Reddy, Additional SP Chandrashekar, DSP Tirupathanna, Inspectors namely Srinivas Naidu, Kishan, Srinivas Rao, Venkat Reddy, Majeed, Surya Prakash, Ravi Kiran Reddy, Balwantaiah, Narender Goud, Ravinder, head constables, Dinesh Anand, Mohammed Miya and constable Balaiah.

The DGP said that the inquiry revealed that around 25 officers had links with Nayeem and were involved in various activities with him.

The suspensions were made after Inspector General of Police Y. Nagi Reddy who headed the Special Investigation Team appointed to probe the case, submitted a report that established the links the officers had with Nayeem, his gang members and his activities.

The suspended officers received direct benefits from Nayeem in various forms during their service in the areas in which he operated.

The benefits included huge amoungs of cash and valuable articles.

Some of these accused officials also took the help of the gangster to settle their land disputes and civil issues, and they had also purchased land in huge quantities.

The oral inquiry has been ordered against deputy superintendent of police (Mahbubnagar) M. Sai Manohar, DSP (Yellandu) G. Prakash Rao, DSP Venkata Narsaiah and inspector (Gadwal) G. Venkataiah. Nayeemuddin killed IPS officer KS Vyas in 1993. He is also involved in 14 murders.

After working with Naxalites in the '80s, Nayeem was arested at the age of 19 with a tapancha and a grenade. After release, Nayeem joined the PWG Alair dalam. He was arrested again in 1993 and expelled from the PWG for indulging in extortion and settlements. He later formed gangs to extort and murder people mainly for money.

A total of 205 cases have been registered against Nayeem by Special Investigation Team and 127 persons arrested so far in various cases. The police filed 25 charge sheets and 14 of his followers were detained under PD Act.