Hyderabad, January 12: Inspector of Habeebnagar police station N S V Venkateswar Rao was on Wednesday pulled up by city police commissioner A K Khan for not acting responsibly in a case of kidnapping and torture.
Mirza Saleem Baig, a resident Hafiz Baba Nagar, had filed a complaint with the Habeebnagar police alleging that on January 8 he was kidnapped and tortured by Shakeel Khan and his henchmen Nayeem, Ateeq and Imran.
He was forcibly picked up from Alhamdulillah Hotel in Habeebnagar area and taken to an under-construction function hall at Ahmed Colony, Golconda. There he was confined for 30 hours and tortured, he alleged. Baig also alleged that Shakeel Khan called his wife and demanded Rs 2 lakh ransom to release him.
Following the rap from the commissioner, the Habeebnagar police registered a case under Sections 364 (A) (kidnap for ransom), 506 (criminal intimidation), 325 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt) and 149 (unlawful assembly).
–Agencies