Renegade Naxal leader wanted for 20 murder cases shot dead in Telangana

Hyderabad: Renegade Naxal leader and most wanted gangster Mohammed Nayeemuddin alias Nayeem was shot dead by elite anti-Naxal commandos in Shadnagar Millenium township of Mahbubnagar district in Telangana early on Monday.

Mahabubnagar police confirmed that the operation began at 8:30 am but refused to give more information.

Nayeem was involved in at least 20 murder cases and was accused of killing IPS officer KS Vyas. He was also involved in the Sohrabuddin encounter case and was suspected to have given information to the police about the criminal's movements. Sohrabuddin was killed by the Gujarat police in 2005.

He is reportedly from Bhongir in Nalgonda district, which is very close to Hyderabad and used be a part of a Maoist outfit which was known as 'Naxalites of People's War'.

Nayeem was also on the radar of Andhra Pradesh police in connection with the murder of TRS leader K Ramulu who was shot dead by unidentified persons on May 11 in Nalgonda town in 2014.