Publication: The Times Of India Hyderabad;

Date: Dec 13, 2012;

Section: Times City;

Page: 4

POLICE FILES

Woman held for plotting husband’s murder

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Hyderabad: The Bahadurpura police on Wednesday arrested a 38-year-old woman for the murder of her husband with the assistance of four others on December 3. The four accomplices were also apprehended.

Ashiya Begum and her associates Mohammed Ahmed, 22, Ghouse Khan, 22, of Hassan Nagar, Shaik Ahmed, 24, of Tadban and Mohammed Jaleel, 21, of Hassan Nagar were taken into custody.

Giving details, police said that on December 9, Abdul Arshad of Hassan Nagar lodged a complaint with the Bahadurpura police alleging that his 45-year-old father, Mohammed Abdul Samad, who left the house on December 3 in his auto (AP 11 V 4644), was found dead at Mir Alam Tank.

Arshad said his father’s mobile was unreachable since December 3 evening and on December 6, his mother Ashiya lodged a missing complaint at the Rajendranagar police station. Police quizzed his friends and family and found out that Samad had some problems with his second wife, Ashiya Begum. She had been arrested earlier by the Rajendranagar police in a self-help group (SHG)-related cheating case. Samad was also taken into custody for questioning. Humiliated, Samad bore a grudge against her. He also began suspecting her fidelity as Mohammed Ahmed reportedly used to frequent their house in his absence.

The mobile call data analysis of Ashiya before and after Samad went missing, revealed that she had made several calls to Mohammed Ahmed. With these clues, police picked up Ahmed on Wednesday and on interrogation, he confessed to have murdered Samad with the assistance of his friends.

As per Ashiya’s plan, Shaik Ahmed engaged Samad’s auto on December 3 at Bahadurpura to go to Jalpally in Pahadesharif. Except Ashiya, the other three accused followed Samad’s vehicle in another auto owned by Jaleel. At an isolated spot near Jalpally pond, Shaik made Samad stop the auto and they tried throttling him.

Samad fell unconscious, but due to the presence of some locals, they left the place and drove all the way to an isolated place near Mir Alam Tank. "They strangled Samad to death and dumped the body in the water. To prevent the body from floating, they tied boulders to the body and fled," deputy commissioner of police (DCP), South Zone, Akun Sabharwal said.

Based on the information given by Mohammed Ahmed, police arrested the other culprits from their houses on Wednesday. They were produced in court and remanded in judicial custody.