Hyderabad: Staff of the Hyderabad Commissioner’s Task Force South Zone team cracked the case of the murder of an 18-year-old boy. The mother, Masooda Bee, had given a supari to kill her own son, vexed by his harassment.
The police is yet to nab the mother. Police arrested Syed Hasham, a friend of the victim, Md. Rasheed and Basheer Ahmed Qureshi, the teen’s brothers-in-law. All of them are 48 years old.
According to the police the victim, Md Khaja, was the second son among three sons and five daughters. The family saw Khaja as a burden because he had become addicted to alcohol and used to harass his mother for money to buy liquor.
He was also said to be addicted to gambling, and used to trouble other family members who used to live in a joint family.
Police said Khaja started physically abusing his mother and began selling household articles to buy liquor and to gamble when his mother refused to give him money.
He started inviting his friends and others to his house to play cards and turned his house into a gaming house, police said.
His sisters and brothers-in-law shifted their residence elsewhere and took their mother with him but Khaja allegedly started visiting his mother there, harassed her and his brothers-in-law for money and even threatened to sell the house at Hashamabad.
Masooda Bee along with her family members hatched a plan to kill her son by giving a supari to her son’s friend Syed Hasham. He picked up Khaja’s brothers-in-law to carry out the deed.
As per the plan, the three accused — Hasham, Rasheed and Basheer — invited Khaja to drink toddy and all four went to a toddy shop at Bandlaguda in Hasham’s autorickshaw. After getting him drunk, they took Khaja to an isolated place and killed him, bludgeoning with a boulder.
Additional deputy commissioner of police S. Chaitanya Kumar said, “Circumstantial evidence helped us to crack the case. Human intelligence played an important role in detecting the case.”
He said the police came to know that one of the family members was missing.
“When we enquired we found that the accused have criminal backgrounds. When we cross-checked, we came to know details about Khaja and who he was last seen with. During the inquiry the accused confessed to the murder and identified the location of the crime scene,” Mr Kumar said.
Police secured the remand of Hasham, Basheer and Qureshi. Police booked a case and is looking out for Masooda Bee.
An official said they were confident of arresting her.
