Curfew to be relaxed in 2 Old City areas

HYDERABAD: Barring stray incidents elsewhere, the third day of curfew in Saidabad and Madannapet passed off peacefully on Tuesday. With the situation improving, police have decided to relax curfew in the two areas on Wednesday between 11 am and 3 pm.
Meanwhile, the Central Crime Station (CCS) investigators, who are probing the 26 communal violence cases, claimed they have identified the conspirators, who started the trouble by throwing animal parts at a place of worship in Kurmaguda.Even though arrests are yet to be made in the case, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) has managed to arrest seven persons for their role in four other cases booked at the Madannapet and Saidabad police stations.
CCS sleuths have arrested two persons__Yousuf Siddiqui, 24, a bouncer from Chawni, and Mir Mudassar Ali, 24, of Hafeez Baba Nagar for stabbing two brothers of Madhapur when they were travelling on a bike near Madannapet graveyard behind the Chanchalguda women’s prison.
Based on a complaint lodged by an auto driver of Kurmaguda, police arrested Syed Shakir, 24, an architect from Chanchalguda, for damaging an auto and assaulting the driver near Royal Embassy College.
Police nabbed Syed Amjad Ali, 19, a car décor worker, Mohammed Nizam, 22, an AC mechanic of Guddibowli, and Mohammed Dastagir, 30, a tailor of Chawni, for indulging in stone pelting incidents in Kurmaguda.
A 20-year-old private employee, M Mallikarjun Reddy, was arrested for stone pelting and damaging RTC buses near Jai Hind Hotel in Saidabad.
“We have also identified the culprit in the Kurmaguda place of worship desecration case, but it is too early to divulge details,” DCP (Detective department) J Satyanarayana said.
Police are using photographs and video footage of the violence to nab the miscreants and the DCP said that the arrests were being made only after gathering evidence.
With the latest arrests, the Hyderabad police have so far arrested 14 persons in 27 communal violence- related cases. Of these cases, CCS is probing 26 cases. With police busy in nabbing Sunday’s offenders, miscreants continued their attempts to disrupt communal harmony in the city.
On Tuesday evening, unidentified persons threw pieces of animal flesh in front of a place of worship in Nandi Musalaiahguda of Bahadurpura police limits. However, police quickly reached the spot, sanitized the area and dispersed the mob.
Providing the much-needed relief to citizens in violence-hit areas, Hyderabad police in-charge commissioner Anurag Sharma announced relaxation of curfew in Madannapet and Saidabad between 11 am and 3 pm on Wednesday.