Cyberabad Police Invoke PD Act against Property Offender
The accused to resorted to criminal activities by threatening people and committing property offences: Police
Hyderabad: Cyberabad Police Commissioner M. Ramesh invoked the Preventive Detention (PD) Act against notorious property offender Derangula Ravi alias Gaja Donga and detained him in Cherlapalli central prison with a view to prevent him from indulging in further criminal activities.
Ravi is a resident of Suraram Colony in Jeedimetla. With an intention to earn easy money, he resorted to criminal activities by threatening people and committing property offences. He has been repeatedly involved in property and bodily offences, including extortion, snatching, house burglaries and assaults on persons who intervened, using knives and other dangerous weapons.
Ravi used to target pedestrians and persons residing in isolated houses, threaten them with physical harm or death, and forcibly extort their valuables. He also used to visit residential areas during the night in search of locked houses. After identifying such houses, he would break open the main doors, and commit theft of gold and silver ornaments and other valuable articles.
In addition, he targeted parked two-wheelers, stole them and fled from the scene. He has been involved in 64 criminal offences from the year 2008 to 2026. He was arrested by the Suraram police and was lodged in jail. He is now detained under the PD Act.