Moradabad: Former Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday said under the BJP governments at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh the era of “political patronage” to criminals has been converted into an “era of prison” for such people.
Addressing public meetings here while campaigning for the urban civic bodies elections, the BJP leader said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts towards “political purification” have yielded results on the ground and the country is successfully moving forward on the path of development with dignity.
“Prime Minister Modi’s ‘mahayagya’ for political purification is the perfect solution for political pollution,” he was quoted as saying in a statement released by his office.
The BJP’s good governance has demolished the “deceit of appeasement and communal politics” with determination of development without discrimination, Naqvi said.
“Phony political vendors of votes have been isolated and people’s participation in progress has created an atmosphere of trust with development,” he said.
The BJP leader said that the Modi-Yogi governments at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh have crushed the “curse of curfew, corruption and crime”.
The era of “political patronage” to corrupt and criminals has now been converted into an era of “prison” for such people, he said.
Naqvi also urged people to demolish barriers of caste, community, region and religion and move forward on the path of inclusive empowerment.
He also listened to the 100th episode of PM’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’ with people in Moradabad.
Unnao: Criminals in Uttar Pradesh walked around with their heads held high but now they hang placards around their necks begging for their lives, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Tuesday while campaigning for the urban local body elections.
Adityanath addressed elections rallies in Unnao and Rae Bareli ahead of the polls, scheduled to take place in two phases on May 4 and May 11.
Addressing an election rally in Rae Bareli, Adityanath said, “BJP ki ek hi yukti, pradesh ko dilai mafia se mukti (The BJP has only one solution which has rid the sate of criminals)’. The mafia are begging for mercy to lead regular lives and earn livelihood by honest means due to zero tolerance against crime.”
He also took a dig at the previous regimes, saying people associated with a particular party would brandish country-made pistols while the youths now are working on smartphones and tablets.
Adityanath was referring to the Uttar Pradesh government’s drive to distribute tablets and smartphones free of cost to one crore undergraduate and postgraduate students as part of a push to the link the state’s youths with the Digital India campaign.
Addressing another rally in Unnao, Adityanath said, “Before 2017, traders were exploited and extorted. Today, they are benefitting from the PM SVANidhi scheme. Prior to 2017, there was terror of miscreants while today, cities are being made safe.
“Earlier, there were heaps of garbage but cities are becoming smart today. Now, there is no place for mafia-criminals, crime, corruption and corrupt people in Uttar Pradesh.”
The BJP defeated the Samajwadi Party to form the government in Uttar Pradesh in 2017. Adityanath became the chief minister for the second consecutive term after assembly polls last year, a feat achieved in India’s most populous state after over three decades.
Speaking in Unnao, he said, “This is the new Uttar Pradesh. Government facilities are being given as per eligibility. We consider every citizen of Uttar Pradesh to be a member of our family, so no one can claim that there was caste or religious discrimination.”
“No extortions or kidnappings for ransom, Uttar Pradesh is no longer anyone’s fiefdom,” the chief minister said.
He also criticised the previous regimes for creating law and order problems that prevented girls from going to school.
“(Earlier) the youths faced an identity crisis. The nation’s reputation suffered and scams became prevalent. The perception of India has changed since 2014. People now look at the youth of India with respect. Today, India is making progress in every field,” Adityanath said.
Adityanath said India has transformed in the last nine years and that transformation has become the centre of attraction for the world. The dream of 140 crore people in India is being fulfilled without any discrimination under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Similarly, there has been a change in how Uttar Pradesh is perceived inside India in the last six years, he added.
In the last six years, the “double engine government” has provided a house each to more than 54 lakh poor people in rural and urban areas while toilets have been built for 2.61 crore underprivileged.
Adityanath said the civic elections are not a small matter and are meant to add a “third engine” to the existing “double engine government” of the BJP in the state to accelerate its development.
The prime minister’s vision is the mission of Uttar Pradesh, he said. The Ganga Expressway is being constructed to connect western Uttar Pradesh with the state’s central and eastern parts and will benefit the people of Unnao, the chief minister said.
The expressway will allow people to travel to Delhi in six hours and Prayagraj in two, he added.
Unnao and Rae Bareli will go to the polls in the first phase on May 4. The votes will be counted on May 13.
The elections are seen as setting the tone for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh, which sends 80 lawmakers to Parliament.
The two death penalty measures are just a part of a series criminal justice bills that DeSantis called for ahead of this year’s session. He sharply criticized the Parkland jury decision that resulted in Cruz getting a life sentence, but in a running series of appearances to promote his book ahead of an expected presidential run, he also lashed out at blue states and “soft-on-crime” prosecutors operating in other parts of the country.
“We are holding people accountable,” DeSantis told Republicans gathered Thursday morning at a Lincoln Day breakfast held in Akron, Ohio. “We reject soft-on-crime polices like eliminating cash bail or jailbreak legislation that lets dangerous criminals out of jail before they have finished their sentence. We see the plague across the country of left-wing district attorneys getting elected.”
Republicans with an eye toward running for president see fighting crime as a good issue for them, after the message resonated with voters in the midterms. Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday, for example, called for mass shooters to be executed within months.
DeSantis’ record on criminal justice is something that allies of former President Donald Trump have already hit the governor on. They criticized him for signing a bill in 2019 that raised the amount that must be stolen for someone to be charged with a felony. The Make America Great Again PAC last month claimed that “while President Trump is the only presidential candidate calling for the death penalty for drug dealers, DeSantis is giving a pass to thieves.”
DeSantis’ criticism of prosecutors and crime policies isn’t new. Last August, he suspended Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren from office after Warren signed a pledge where he stated he would not enforce the state’s abortion laws, among other things. Warren, who was elected to office, is challenging his suspension in both federal and state court, contending that he was removed for political reasons.
After carrying out two executions in his first term, DeSantis has now signed three death warrants so far this year. The execution of Louis Gaskin, who had been dubbed the “ninja killer” and was convicted of killing a couple in 1989, went ahead this past week. Darryl Barwick, who was convicted of murdering a Panhandle woman in 1986, is scheduled to be executed May 3.
The death penalty legislation, however, would likely place Florida into a high-stakes legal debate over criminal punishment in the nation and could eventually wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Currently, Alabama is the only state that actively imposes the death penalty and doesn’t require a unanimous jury recommendation. But Alabama requires at least 10 out of 12 jurors to agree to the death penalty, while the proposal Florida lawmakers passed on Thursday would allow the death penalty to be imposed by a vote of 8-to-4 or greater.
Supporters of the measure have repeatedly cited the example of Cruz — who gunned down 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 — as a reason to make the change. Three jurors in his case voted against recommending the death penalty nearly five years after the tragedy.
“If a monster like that who commits heinous crimes does not deserve and get the death penalty than what do we have a death penalty for?” said Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, the GOP sponsor of the measure.
Ingoglia’s bill is on its way to the governor’s desk after the Florida House voted 80-30 on Thursday in favor of the legislation. The Senate approved the bill last month by a 29-10 vote.
The Florida House this week also approved another death penalty measure that would allow eight of 12 jurors to recommend the death penalty for someone who rapes a child under the age of 12. The legislation includes a clause that says state and federal court decisions that barred the death penalty in these types cases was “wrongly decided and an egregious infringement of the states’ power to punish the most heinous of crimes.”
“If you commit a serious crime, you’re going to face the consequences of your actions,” House Speaker Paul Renner said. “While diversion and rehabilitation are important to providing individuals who come in contact with the justice system an opportunity to correct their behavior, people must be held accountable.”
Both death penalty measures have drawn support from many Democrats, including Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book. Book’s district includes Parkland, and she was a member of the school safety commission created in the aftermath of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
Book called the Cruz decision a “gross injustice.” She acknowledged that the legislation could help DeSantis during a presidential run, but added that his national ambitions have been the overarching theme of this year’s legislative session.
“Everything coming out is to help him to do something he wants to do and further his agenda,” Book said.
Some Democrats, however, questioned pushing bills that appear at odds with current state and federal court rulings.
“It’s a dangerous, slippery slope,” argued state Rep. Mike Gottlieb, a South Florida Democrat and criminal defense attorney, about child rape bill.
Republicans contend that changing from a unanimous jury to a supermajority should pass constitutional scrutiny, but Renner and other GOP legislators concede that the law regarding rapists could likely wind up before the nation’s high court.
But they pointed out that the previous Supreme Court decision striking down the death penalty for child rapists was handed down by a 5-4 majority, including from liberal justices who are no longer on the panel. The 2008 decision at the time was criticized by both Barack Obama and John McCain as they campaigned for president.
“This is not murder — it’s worse,” said state Rep. Danny Alvarez, an attorney and Republican, during debate on the bill. “When you rape a child, you kill that child’s spirit. That rape lasts with every moment that child closes their eyes. And you tell me ‘oh it doesn’t meet the standard.’…If you will not rise with a child you will fall with the rapist … there should be no debate.”
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Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party on Friday came up with a list of alleged criminals claiming that they are “still alive, committing crime and running gangs” as they all belong to the same caste as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
The SP also alleged that it was the BJP people who got Umesh Pal, a key witness in the 2005 killing of then Bahujan Samaj Party legislator Raju Pal, murdered.
In a tweet in Hindi, the media cell of the Samajwadi Party, said, “The murder of Umesh Pal has been done by the BJP people. The BJP may have got an immediate opportunity to polarise the votes in the (ongoing) urban local bodies’ elections and to (indulge in) communal frenzy, on the pretext of this murder. But, any BJP leader, no matter how big he is, will not be spared.”
The SP “list” comes a day after gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad’s son Asad and his accomplice, accused in the Umesh Pal murder case, were gunned down in a shootout with the Uttar Pradesh Police, which the party alleged was a fake encounter.
The list of alleged criminals with a claimed number of cases includes names of Kuldeep Singh Sengar (Unnao, 28 cases), Brijesh Singh (Varanasi, 106 cases), Dhananjay Singh (Jaunpur, 46 cases), Raja Bhaiyya (Raghuraj Pratap Singh) (Pratapgarh, 31 cases), among others.
Referring to the list, the media cell of the Samajwadi Party, in a tweet in Hindi, said, “Are they special to Yogi? Actually, they all belong to the same caste as that of Yogi, hence, they are still alive, committing crime, running the gangs and indulging in murder, rape, loot, dacoity and extortion.”
The party also added a note in the tweet saying “the list is old, but most of the criminals in it are BJP-supported and are active”
In another tweet, the SP’s media cell said that the alleged encounter will be probed one day and the truth will be revealed.
The party also referred to the allegation made by Atiq Ahmad’s sister Ayesha Noori last month that Prayagraj Mayor Abhilasha Gupta Nandi had conspired to kill Umesh Pal.
According to the allegation, this was done so that the gagster-politician’s wife Shaista Parveen would not be able to contest the next mayoral election.
Reacting to the allegations levelled on him, Nandi in a tweet in Hindi had said, “The baseless allegations are only an unsuccessful attempt to divert attention from the main issue and mislead….Linking this with the mayoral elections is not only irrelevant but also laughable,” he said in another tweet.
In another tweet, the SP said, “Yogi Adityanath was very happy with Atiq Ahmad in the Phulpur Lok Sabha by-election (in 2018). Atiq was helping the BJP and the party was helping him.
“A minister in the Yogi government borrowed money from Atiq’s family and to do away with him, Nand Gopal Gupta ‘Nandi’ took the support of the government in a bid to grab the borrowed money/partnership,” the tweet read.
Umesh Pal and his two police security guards were shot dead on February 24 outside his home in Prayagraj’s Dhoomanganj.
Based on a complaint lodged by Umesh Pal’s wife Jaya Pal, a case was registered on February 25 against Atiq Ahmad, his brother Ashraf, Parveen, two sons, aides Guddu Muslim and Ghulam, and nine others.
On March 28, an MP/MLA court held Atiq Ahmad and two others guilty in the 2006 Umesh Pal kidnapping case and sentenced them to life imprisonment. That was Ahmad’s first conviction even though more than 100 cases have been registered against him.
The 60-year-old former Samajwadi Party MP was brought from Sabarmati Jail in Gujarat by road for a hearing in the case in Prayagraj.
In 2006, Atiq Ahmad and his aides abducted Umesh Pal and forced him to give a statement in court in their favour. Umesh Pal had registered a complaint in this regard.
Nuh: The Nuh police on Tuesday used drones to survey five villages that allegedly house suspected hideouts of criminals involved in cow smuggling and slaughtering, officials said.
A police team also raided some houses of the suspects but they were found absconding, they said.
A senior police officer said that Nuh police has now started keeping surveillance with drone cameras to find out the hideouts of criminals involved in cow smuggling and cow slaughtering in villages of the district.
Apart from this, three special task forces are being formed. The list of criminals involved in cow smuggling and cow slaughtering in Nuh has been sent to every police station and the crime unit of Nuh police, said a police statement.
On Tuesday, a police team led by Satish Vats, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Firozpur Jhirka, surveyed five villages through the drone cameras. The team also raided the houses of suspects in these five villages.
A senior police officer said that no suspect was found at their homes as an atmosphere of fear was created among them and they fled.
“The Nuh police started monitoring with drone cameras,” said Nuh SP Varun Singla, adding locals are “also helping us a lot”.
Telangana BJP national general secretary and the state in-charge, Tarun Chugh
Hyderabad: BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh on Sunday said ‘Aparadhis’ behave like ‘Satyagrahis’, taking an indirect dig to BRS MLC K Kavitha’s hunger strike regarding the women’s reservation bill on Friday.
In a statement, Chug said that Kavitha should cooperate with the Enforcement Directorate.
“It is wiser for Kavita to face the ED like any other accused and answer the questions. I appeal to the chief minister of Telangana K Chandrashekar Rao to refrain from orchestrating cheap polemics from the portals of Pragati Bhavan,” Chug said in a statement released on Sunday.
K Kavitha has been named as one of the accused in the Delhi liquor policy scam. She was questioned by the ED for nearly nine hours on Saturday in the national capital.
Chug said that the BRS leaders trooped into New Delhi as though the heavens had fallen. “Manish Sisodia holds rallies before going to ED, and Kavita is flanked by its top leaders,” he added.
Launching an attack on CM KCR and his family. Chug said that they looted Telangana during the last nine years. “As though that loot is not enough, the money-thirsty family descended on New Delhi to join the loot in connivance with Aam Aadmi Party leaders.”
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday expressed concerns over former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia’s “safety” inside the jail and alleged that he was being kept with “dangerous” criminals, a charge denied by the prison authorities.
AAP national spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj alleged that Sisodia is being kept with other criminals in the Tihar Jail and has been refused “vipassana” cell.
He claimed that despite approval from the court, Sisodia has not been provided the “vipassana” cell.
“There was a request for Manish Sisodia to be kept in the vipassana cell of the jail and it was approved by the court. Despite the court’s approval, Sisodia has been kept with other criminals in jail number 1. The Centre must answer why are they doing this,” Bharadwaj said.
Senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh lashed out at the BJP and the Centre and alleged that they have been “misusing” central agencies such as the CBI and the ED.
“BJP and the Centre are full of hatred and they have been misusing the central agencies. Every other day there is news of CBI and ED raids on the opposition leaders. They (BJP) are least bothered about education, health, electricity, water and overall progress of the country,” Singh alleged.
He further alleged that Sisodia has been kept with “dangerous” criminals in the jail and that the party leaders have been “worried about his safety”.
Senior AAP leader Dilip Pandey claimed that court orders have been “defied” and Sisodia has been kept with criminals with “dangerous records” inside the Tihar Jail.
“First, Manish Sisodia was mentally tortured by the central agencies and then he has been kept in Tihar’s jail number 1 with criminals with dangerous records. He is also being pressured to sign the papers where false charges have been framed against him,” he alleged.
Rejecting the Aam Aadmi Party’s allegations as “unfounded”, the Delhi Prison authorities on Wednesday said Sisodia has been lodged in a ward of Central Jail No. 1 of Tihar where there are a minimum number of inmates and no gangsters.
In a statement, the prison authorities said, “Manish Sisodia has been assigned to a segregated ward keeping his security in mind. The ward…has minimum number of inmates who are not gangsters and are maintaining good conduct inside the jail.”
According to jail officials, a separate cell makes it possible for him to meditate or do such other activities without any disturbance.
“All the arrangements, as per jail rules, are in place to ensure his safety and security. Any aspersions cast about his lodgings is unfounded,” an official added.
Sisodia was arrested by the CBI in the excise policy scam case. He is currently in judicial custody.
Reacting to the allegations levelled by the AAP, BJP leader Manoj Tiwari charged that the AAP is “trying to mislead” the public as Tihar Jail comes under the Delhi government’s Department of Prisons.
Every morning, Paola Arbolera loads a few crates of smoked shark and stingray on to her wooden canoe and drags it to the river. Before the sun rises, she rows in darkness to the market in Guapi, a small fishing town on Colombia’s Pacific coast, to sell her goods.
She leaves her canoe under the rafters of the dock’s large loading bay, wedged between rubbish and other canoes, while fellow vendors unload bananas and plantain.
At about 5am, Arbolera, a 35-year-old single mother of seven, sets up shop on a street corner, displaying her home-smoked fish. The sunrise brings a flurry of activity, and the market comes to life. A swarm of straw hats and elderly shoppers bustle around Arbolera’s simple stand, where she sells her produce until about midday to provide a meagre livelihood for her children.
But doing this now makes Arbolera a criminal.
In November 2020, the government of former president Iván Duque issued a decree banning shark fishing and its commercialisation in the hope of tackling shark-fin exports and protecting marine life.
Arbolera relies solely on sales at the market for her income. She is illiterate, which drastically limits her few opportunities in the small town in Cauca, one of Colombia’s poorest provinces.
“What else can I do?” Arbolera says. “It’s our destiny to keep working. If we can’t do this, how will we feed our children?”
Both industrial and small-scale shark fishing have been banned in Colombia since 2017, but the new decree introduced a blanket ban that criminalises artisanal fishing as well, which local people such as Arbolera depend on.
“The decision marks a milestone in environmental public policy,” says Estefanía Rodríguez, a political advocacy adviser at MarViva, a marine conservation group. “The ban contributes positively to the health of marine ecosystems, the sustainability of shark populations and to the livelihood of coastal communities.”
Although the decree was celebrated by environmentalists, it has put the livelihoods of many fishing communities on the line.
As governments across the globe have scrambled to demonstrate their environmental credentials, Duque’s was no exception. His decree represents a clash between the preservation of Colombia’s marine ecosystems and the defence of its marginalised communities and their traditions.
The decree, introduced in March 2021, has jeopardised the wider supply chain and livelihoods of those who depend on it – from artisanal fishers and vendors, to cooks and families whose nutrition revolves around sharks.
Critics of the former president claim the decree was a way to secure an easy environmental win to improve his deeply unpopular image in the country. They say it has added an unnecessary layer of difficulty to an already challenging way of life among coastal communities.
“They made some of Colombia’s poorest communities suffer. They became illegal from one day to the next on a government’s whim,” says Diego Andrés Triana, a lawyer and adviser to the Association of Colombian Fishermen.
“The Black communities that live along the Pacific are the poorest of the poor. They are the nobodies of the fishing sector,” Triana says.
For towns such as Guapi, artisanal shark fishing is a longstanding traditional practice. Tollo – as the shark is known – provides regular sustenance for many families and holds significant cultural value among African-Colombian communities.
Maria Perlaza (top) prepares the traditional fish dish ceviche de tollo, served with rice and fried plantain,together with María Grueso (bottom right)
The small shark is found extensively along Colombia’s Pacific coast and typically grows to about 1.5 metres (5ft) long. It is often the cheapest form of protein many coastal communities have access to and the culinary staple is enjoyed either smoked, stewed, fried or in a traditional ceviche.
“Not having tollo in Guapi is like not having water in a desert. It’s important because it’s something cultural,” says Willingtong Obregón, who has been fishing for decades.
Artisanal fishers spend a few days at sea plying their trade before returning with their catch. They predominantly fish from small boats or canoes, lowering thin nets into the water to catch anything they find.
“[The ban] really affects us economically as it’s work through which we could easily provide for our families. It has a serious impact on the family subsistence of us Guapireños,” says Obregón, as he stands in the town market, flanked by women chopping up freshly caught fish.
Organisations and local people in Guapi claim the fishing community was not properly consulted about the decree or involved in discussions before its implementation.
Melba Angulo has been selling fish at Guapi market since the age of 10. “I’m aware that it affects the ecosystem, but to ban it they should have consulted us, who sell and fish it, to see what alternatives they could propose [for us] to sustain ourselves, because banning it ignores the families who live from this,” he says.
Melba Angulo, who has her own fish stall in Guapi market square, has been selling fish since she was a child
Colombia’s new vice-minister for the environment, Sandra Vilardy, admits: “We recognise the decree was not adequately consulted.”
Local fishers along the Pacific coast do not target tollo but capture it largely by accident. Toss a large net along the coast and chances are you will catch tollo whether you want to or not.
“Tollo fishing is incidental, how can one avoid that?” says Otto Polanco Rengifo, a marine biologist and former director of the government’s National Authority of Aquaculture and Fishing. “The decree forces you to do the unavoidable. You cannot prohibit such a socioeconomically vulnerable population from doing what for decades and centuries has kept them alive.”
Last year, as artisanal fisher Francisco “Pancho” Mina was returning to Guapi from several days at sea, he was stopped by the Colombian navy, which searched his boat for any illegal catch. Among the usual catfish and groupers, the authorities found 58 tollo sharks. They were confiscated by the authorities, who warned of more serious consequences if it happened again.
Like Obregón and Arbolera, Mina claims to have little choice but to continue with his work, regardless of what the decree may say. During the high season, Mina says he can catch up to 150 tollo sharks.
“It’s pure necessity because we don’t have anything else to do. [The authorities] shouldn’t persecute a working peasant if we’re just trying to feed our families,” he says.
Vilardy points out that the decree is meant to allow for incidental subsistence fishing, which raises questions about what happened to Mina.
“There is a possibility for that incidental fishing to be used in a local context because we recognise that it has a traditional use, which is very local and closely linked to traditional consumption and culture,” Vilardy told the Guardian.
Last month, the navy intercepted 904kg of illegally caught sharks onboard an industrial fishing boat off the coast of Bahía Solano, along the northern Pacific coast. They found 114 sharks – among them tollo – and 89 shark fins; 85% of the sharks were juveniles and below the minimum age to be caught.
Artisanal fishers also have to compete with industrial-scale fishing boats to protect their income. Uber Vasesilla, a 71-year-old captain of an industrial vessel, roams the coasts for days on end, sweeping the ocean for all kinds of fish.
After hours of trawling, his catch contains all sorts of marine life including eels, red snapper, stingrays, parrot fish, various crabs and puffer fish, but there is no sign of the popular shark.
Fishers cut up fresh fish and prepare it for refrigeration while seabirds wheel in the air, waiting for the leftovers thrown into the sea (bottom right). Wilfrido Hurtado, 65, and Harold Bermúdez, 27, watch football on TV while they wait for the fishing nets to come up
“There’s not much tollo out there these days,” Vasesilla says, as he calmly steers his rusty ship with his foot. Either way, he and his ageing crew of six return any unwanted tollo and stingrays to the sea, as required by the decree.
So far this year, the Colombian navy has seized 7.4 tonnes of banned species.
On assuming power this year, the new leftwing government promised a broad slate of environmental policies and vowed to protect the interests and cultural traditions of marginalised African-Colombian communities.
The administration is now tasked with implementing its green agenda as well as finding a way to manage the decree while supporting the livelihoods of rural African-Colombians affected by it.
Vilardy says the ministry is reviewing the decree. “The plan is to work with the communities and assess possible improvements to the decree … for us to make adjustments based on a good mechanism of participation. It is very valuable for us to be able to keep cultures alive,” she says.
In the meantime, the fishers and vendors of Guapi have no option but to defy the decree and continue working on the fringes of legality to safeguard their livelihoods.
For Mina, the choice is simple: “If we live off this, then we’ll have to continue fishing.”
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Hyderabad: The city police here arrested two interstate criminals who were involved in several cases within tri-commissionerates of the Hyderabad, Cyberabad and Rachakonda police, apart from other cases they were facing under the Anantapur town and Nandyal III Town police in Andhra Pradesh.
The two accused have been identified as Darla Nehemaiah, who also went by the aliases Mehemaiah and Bruce Lee, and Mandula Shankar. They were both arrested by a Hyderabad central zone team of the Hyderabad police’s Task Force on the intervening night of January 31 and February 1.
According to the Hyderabad police, after committing the offences, both the accused persons would hand over the stolen booty for safe custody with two others named Manoj Kumar Malik (from Odisha) and Namala Sridhar, a resident of Hasmathpet, Bowenpally.
After their arrest, the police executed 11 long pending non-bailable warrants against both Nehemaiah and Shankar. They were handed over to officials from the Mahankali police station along with the seized property for taking further necessary action.
