Opposing the entry and operating the criminal activities of hard core criminal Sk. Kadir(28) alias Munna, the son of mobster Hyder , along with his associates in the bastis of minorities communities at Aul , costs dear for a youth as he lost his life in the gangsters bullet, it has been revealed by Narasingh Bhola, the SP of Kendrapada on Wednesday in a press meet orgainsed at District police office.
According to SP, after realeasing from jail in 2009 ,Munna tried to form a new gang of his own by leaving behind his father Hyder’s gang. So he recently tried to expand his crime syndicates at Aul area, the house of his second wife Resma Bibi. In order to settle at Aul and to make his gangs strengthen he allegedly add some local youths in his gang .As a result, he most of the times used to visit Aul in last some months and halted nights at his father-in-laws house. While some the village heads of minorities communities basti, including Wasim khan and his brother Wajid khan, started opposing the act of Munna for spreading crime and adding their youths in his newly formed gang . For which three months back , a meeting was organized among the basti heads at Aul . In the meeting ,Shahnawaj Khan , the son of Kasim khan of Aul, opposed the entry and spreading of hardcore criminal Munna’s crime network in the area . As a result, Munna’s uncle –in-law, Soni, and Liasat Khan , one of the associate of Munna, tried to support Munna’s entry and settling down at Aul. For which , an altercation was erupted and Shahnawaj Khan allegedly slapped to Liasat Khan.
In order to teach a lesson to Shahnawaj Khan for slapping the associate of Munna in the meeting , Munna’s uncle-in-law,Soni, pursed Munna to kill the youth . As a result, on 16th March, 2010 Munna’s associates hurled bombs at the cement shop of Shahnawaj khan . Later, Munna with the help of some of his associates, including Abdul Rafique Khan alias Raja ,of Fakirabad, Sk.Jahid alais Jadu ,of Rasulpur, Khalilur Rehman alias chand of Fakirabad, Imtiyaj Khan of Zobra area in cuttack , hatched plan to kill Shahnawaj Khan.
As a result, on 24th May, as per the pre-planned Munna with the help of fired bullets to shahanawaj Khan and his uncle Wajid Khan while they were sitting at their cement shops in Aul market and fled from the spot . Later, Shanawaj Khan succumbed to the bullet injuries .Munna ,later,fled to Hyderabad to avoid police arrest, added SP, Bhola.
Acting on the reliable sources, that Munna was taking shelter in rented house at Dullapali in Hyderabad under Cyberabad Commissionrate Police with his second wife ,Resma Bibi, a police team led by DSP ,Narayan Mohanty , went to Hyderabad and nabbed Munna with the aid of Special Operate Team of Andhra Pradesh counterparts. Later, Munna confessed to the crime and informed about his associates to police .
Kendrapada police later conducted raids at different hideouts and nabbed Abdul Rafique alias Raja , Sk. Jahid alias Jadu, Khalilur Rehman alias chand in the murder case of shahnawaj Khan and hurling bombs to the business establishment of shahnawaj Khan .
According to SP, the arrested Munna and Raja were the prime accused in firing bullets to shahnawaj Khan, whereas Jadu was arrested in making conspiracy to kill shahanawaj Khan and Chand was arrested for hurling bombs at the shop of the deceased Shahnawaj.
According to Bhola, the arrested Chand was expert in preparing bombs and hurling bombs .
The gangster Munna was arrested in five cases ,including the murder case of Shanawaj , hurling bombs at Shanawaj Khan’s shop, hurling bombs at Pattmundai a month back, committing dacoity at Chaudakulat and forcibly taking possession to a person’s house at Badajaria. Whereas several cases of extortion,attempting murder, threatening government officials were pending in several police stations in and outside the district.
On the otherhand, the arrested Raja was involved in 3 cases , including murder case of deceased ShahanawajKhan,hurling bombs to the deceased’s shop and hurling bombs at a business establishment at Pattamundai. Similarly, chand was involved in hurling bombs at Aul and Pattamundai Police limit .
Notably, Kendrapqada police earlier arrested Soni, the uncle-in-law of Munna , and Sutka on the charges of instigating Munna andhatching plan to kill Shahnawaj and later helping the gangsters to flee from the spot.
The arrested four persons, including Munna, Raja ,chand and Jadu were booked under 307,302,120(b) of IPC ; 25 and 27 Arms Act:9(B)Indian Explosive Act and they were produced before theSDJM court on Wednesday where their bail petitions were rejected and they were remanded into jail custody.
Meanwhile haunt is on to nab Imtiyaj Khan, the henchman of Munna , Liasat Khan and some other associates of Munna in this murder case, informed Police.
The SP also informed that some women were working for Munna gang .They were engaged by Munna to collect extortion amount from the threatened persons and helping the associates of Munna to flee from the area by arranging railway tickets for them.
