The city police team have arrested two illegal immigrants of Bangladesh and Myanmar who are said to be associates of arrested Pakistani national Abdul Nasir, who is also a member of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI).
Hashim alias Shaik Ameer alias Anwar (40) was picked up by the police from Lingampally railway station on Monday afternoon while Noor-ul-Haq alias Shaik Noor(62) was arrested by Delhi Police on Frida. The duo will be produced before court on Tuesday.
Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Hyderabad Police after receiving the transit warrant has brought Noor-ul-Haq to Hyderabad on Monday night.
According to police Hashim, a native of Myanmar, has been living at Zaheerabad for some years now and has been shuttling between Bangladesh and India, while the Shaik Noor runs a petty shop selling caps in New Delhi.
The Joint commissioner of the detective department, Central Crime Station, T Prabhakar Rao informed that, both of the accused are traffickers assisting Nasir.
“We are finding out how many persons have been sent abroad and on what purposes. We need to know the purpose of their stay in the city too. So far, we have six illegal immigrants and two localites in our custody,” said T Prabhakar Rao.