Hyderabad: Mr. G. Chakravarthy IPS, Addl. Dy. Commissioner of Police, Commissioner’s Task Force, Hyderabad City said the Sleuths of Commissioner’s Taskforce, East Zone Team, Hyderabad, nabbed the Interstate Diverting Attention gang consisting of 04-members, who committed a Diverting attention case in the limits of Afzalgunj Police Station, Hyderabad and recovered Net cash Rs.1,00,000/-, 300 Saudi Dirham’s and 08-cell phones from their possession.
The details of Arrested Accused are as follows.
- Rafik, age 28 years, N/o Bulandshehar, Uttar Pradesh.
- Ruksana Shaik, age 29 years, N/o Bulandshahar, Uttar Pradesh.
- Shaik Atif, age 29 years, N/o Thane District, Maharashtra.
- Nazmul Sattar Shaik, age 24 years, N/o Thane District, Maharashtra.
The Accused Rafik hails from Uttar Pradesh state, he is the youngest amongst three children to his parents. In the year 2015, he performed love marriage with one divorced lady name Ruksana Begum and blessed with a child. Since then he started running a pushcart business, as he is a habitual drunkard his meager earnings are not sufficient to run his family, due to which he along with his wife decided to form a gang and earn easy money illegally by committing a Diverting attention offense. In this process, he along with wife went to Amruth Nagar Dargah, Mumbai and came into contact with another 03-accused namely Shaik Atif, Nazmul Sattar Shaik, and Aziz and discussed with them about his plan to commit an offence by cheating innocent public in the pretext of exchanging Saudi Dirhams with Indian currency. On which they all agreed. In the last week of June, they purchased Saudi Dirhams at Thane District, Mumbai and they all came to Hyderabad and took one house for rent at Manikeshwar Nagar, OU City, Hyderabad.
The Modus Operandi of the accused of committing the crime is as follows.
As per their plan, the accused conducted recce at various areas and kept watch on innocent persons. Accordingly accused targeted one victim and showed him 300/- Saudi Dirhams and explained to him that he got total 12,000/- Saudi Dirham’s which he got through his friends who are working at Saudi to make the victim believe accused gave one 50 Dirham Note to him as a sample and offered him to exchange those 12,000/- Dirham’s which is worth about Rs.2,40,000/- for Rs.1,00,000/- of Indian currency. On 04-07-2020 accused contacted the victim and asked him to come near Bagga wines at Afzalgunj, as the victim arrived at said spot accused Rafik and Aziz were waiting for him and remaining accused were far from them and watching their developments. As victim handed over the net cash of Rs.1,00,000/- to the accused and in return as per their plan accused handed over one fake bundle which was wrapped with newspaper and Extra RIN Soap covered with blue polythene cover in the pretext of 12,000/- Saudi Dirhams and fled away from the spot swiftly.
On the tip of the Commissioner’s Task Force, East Zone Team, Hyderabad, police apprehended the 04-accused namely Rafik, Ruksana, Atif, and Nazmul Sattar Shaik and recovered Net cash Rs.1,00,000/-, 300 Saudi Dirham’s and 08-cell phones from their possession. The above accused along with recovered property handed over to the Station House Officer(SHO) Afzalgunj Police Station for taking further necessary action. In this case, one accused Aziz is absconding and efforts are being made to apprehend him.
The above arrests were made under the supervision of Sri K.Srinivas, Inspector of Police, SI’s Sri G.Srinivas Reddy, Sri C.Venkatesh, Sri Govindu Swamy and the staff of Commissioner’s Task Force, East Zone Team, Hyderabad.
Our Citizen Reporter
B. Bharath Reddy
Telangana
