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Friday, Jul 14, 2006

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Probe leads police to land mafia

Staff Reporter

The victim was allegedly murdered during a quarrel over sharing the spoils of a deal with other members of his gang

BANGALORE: Investigation into the murder of Syed Altaf, whose decomposed body was found in the boot of an abandoned car in HRBR Layout on July 4, has revealed that land mafia was behind the killing. The police said Altaf was the kingpin of a land mafia and his accomplices had murdered him following a dispute over sharing the money they got from a land deal.

Altaf and his accomplices were involved in kidnap for ransom cases. Of late, they used to identify disputed lands and approach the people involved in the dispute with a promise to settle the deal in their favour. But, later they used to threaten both the parties and usurped the disputed land, the police said.

The police said the gang recently took Rs. 2 lakh from Chand Pasha of Kolar promising to settle a dispute over a land at Saraipalya. There was a quarrel between Altaf and his accomplices over sharing Rs. 2 lakh, and his accomplices allegedly murdered him, the police said. A team of Hennur police arrested four of Altaf's accomplices who had allegedly murdered him. The names of the arrested were given as Abdul Wajid (34), Sanaullah Khan (34), Mohammed Ibrahim (25) and Mohammed Abid (23).

Mobile phones recovered

The Vijayanagar sub-division police have arrested Iliyas (19) of Valmikinagar on charges of theft and recovered from him seven mobile phones, all estimated at Rs. 50,000. He had allegedly stolen the phones from Vijayanagar police station limits.

Killed in accident

Govindaraju (23) was killed after a car rammed his autorickshaw in R.T. Nagar traffic police station limits early on Thursday. The police said the accident occurred around 5.30 a.m. near Shivanna Circle in Munireddypalya. Govindaraju was a resident of J.C. Nagar. The police have seized the car and arrested its driver.

Five arrested

The Jnana Bharathi police have arrested five persons, who allegedly waylaid and robbed an autorickshaw driver of cash and a mobile phone and escaped in his autorickshaw on July 9. The names of the arrested were given as Lokesh (26), Someshwara (19), Raghu (19), Jayakumar (21) and Lingaraju (23). The police recovered from them the autorickshaw and the mobile phone.

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