Parmesh S Jain
The Hennur police on Monday arrested three habitual offenders and recovered a country made pistol,10 petrol bombs and other lethal weapons from them.
The accused has been identified as,Syed Asghar, Fayazulla and Munawwar Pasha.
Senior officer told reporters,the Hennur police inspector received a tip off that it is alleged that a group of miscreants is trying to create violence type situation in the area and are in possession with country made pistols and other lethal weapons and are trying to attack someone.
Based on information Hennur police inspector Vasanth and his team swung into action the team kept a close watch from three days they were combing the area in their area upon receiving credible information the team raided a house in Saraipalya and recovered country made pistol,10 Petrol bombs and other lethal weapons.
During investigation the accused confessed the crime and revealed that they stored the lethal weapons to attack their rival Mohammed Azeemuddin,a rowdy sheeter from Saraipalya.
The accused confessed that they had old rivalry with Azeemuddin and wanted to take revenge against him.
Further investigations revealed that Azeemuddin had forced one of the accused Fayazulla to vacate the house and he incurred loss to the tune of several lakhs .
In order to avenge the humiliation,Fayazulla ganged up with his associated Asghar and Munawwar to attack Azeemuddin and implicate his rivals .
However their plan was foiled when the police based on a tip off raided the houses of the accused and recovered the arms .
Senior officer said the development has nothing to do with the ongoing loudspeaker issue.He also clarified that the petrol bombs were stored not to attack the Hindu leaders or devotees and that here was no role of any organisation behind the accused.
A raid was conducted as per the revelation by accused Syed Asgar,an arms dealer,who was arrested by the Hennur police recently.
He further said that the Hennur police had arrested a rowdy-sheeter Mohammad Ajeemuddin on suspicion that he was conspiring to carry out an attack on his rival gang and was amassing weapons along with his associates.
The police had formed three teams and nabbed Syed Asgar, Fayaz Ulla and Munawar Pasha.The investigations revealed that Fayaz nursed a grudge against Mohammad Ajeemuddin. Therefore, he wanted to fix him in a case and stored the petrol bombs.
The accused had purchased 19 beer bottles and filled 10 bottles with petrol, he said.
Fayaz has eight cases,including murder charges, idol theft and case under the Arms Act against him.Further investigation is on.
Meanwhile in the FIR it states that if their plan gets foiled of killing their rival they may create tense situation in the area by damaging public property and harming people with lethal weapons and country made pistol and to create tense situation they have prepared Petrol bombs in beer bottles says FIR.
Finally Bengaluru police commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP East,A subramanyeshwara Rao,DCP,EastDr Bheemashankar S Guled,and his whole team for the Excellent work and investigation done by them and foiled their all plans to create disharmony in the society a special reward will be given to whole team as,ACPs,as,Ningappa B Sakkari,Rangappa T,Jagadish KS,PIS,as,M Vasanth Kumar,Melwin Francis,Santhosh,Prakash and Rohith,PSIs,as,Ningaraj,Anand,Shahjahan, Mounesh,Rajesh,Pratap and whole crime staff has been appreciated for the exemplary work done by them in foiling their plans he added.