Maoist-turned-don killed in Telangana

HYDERABAD: Maoist -turned-gangster Mohammed Nayeemuddin alias Nayeem — the most-wanted criminal of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for over two decades — was on Monday

HYDERABAD: Maoist -turned-gangster Mohammed Nayeemuddin alias Nayeem — the most-wanted criminal of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for over two decades — was on Monday killed in an alleged police encounter at Shadnagar town of Mahbubnagar district, about 50 km from Hyderabad.

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According to Mahbubnagar superintendent of police Rama Rajeshwari, local police had got a specific information from their Nizamabad counterparts that Nayeem was trying to extort Rs 1 crore from a businessman at Dichpalli in Nizamabad district and had asked him to hand over the money at Shadnagar.

Following the tip-off, a team of Grey Hounds, an anti-extremist force, assisted by the local police, tracked Nayeem and his gang.