The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News : Suspected dacoits kill two security guards of soap unit

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Thursday, Sep 09, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Suspected dacoits kill two security guards of soap unit

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, SEPT. 8. Double murder most macabre unfolded for the second time in a week on the outskirts of city when a suspected dacoit gang killed two security guards of a detergent manufacturing unit by slitting their throats at Shamshabad village in the wee hours of Wednesday.

The police suspect that the gang, which killed two security guards at an industrial unit in Patancheru on September 2, was responsible for the double murder.

Copper coils taken away

The fact that dacoits took away copper coils from an adjoining electric transformer in the previous incident and tried in vain to pull out copper material from a transformer in the Shamshabad factory strengthened the suspicion, the Shamshabad Sub-Inspector, R. Sanjay Kumar, said.

Two guards of Shiva Shakthi Security Agencies -- Surender Singh Yadav and Pavan Choube -- were on night duty at Kishore industrial unit on Tuesday.

Two others -- Ram Sigasan and an unidentified person who came from Bihar and joined as guards with the agency on Tuesday -- were asleep in a shed at the main gate.

Two others beaten up

Two hours after midnight, the suspected dacoits wielding iron rods, chains and knives entered the factory premises. The gang went straight to the shed, slit the throats of the two guards while they were fast asleep and searched for property.

They rounded up Yadav and Choube, who were returning to the main gate after night round, and beat them up with iron rods and chains.

After the duo fell on their feet pleading not to kill them, the dacoits herded Choube into a room and tied Yadav's hands with ropes and left. Yadav managed to untie himself, freed Choube and were walking out to call up their owner, Dharam Singh Jain, when they saw the two victims in a pool of blood.

Police baffled

The police are baffled by the heinous killings, as the offenders did not take away huge property or cash.

"Will a dacoit gang kill persons just to take away copper coils from transformers is the ticklish question," the Rajendranagar Assistant Commissioner of Police, B. Narsihmulu, said.

Printer friendly page
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Andhra Pradesh

News Update

Stories in this Section

Contractor's suicide brings work to a nought

Suspected dacoits kill two security guards of soap unit

RTC crackdown on `rash' drivers

Work on RTC crossroads flyover by year-end

MCH plea to poll panel on revision of electoral rolls

Campaign for eco-friendly `Ganesh'

Auto drivers to launch agitation

No power supply in some areas

Around the City

In Hyderanad Today