Mohammed Pahelwan cleared in one case filed by MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi

Hyderabad: A court acquitted Mohammed Bin Omer Yafai alias Mohammed Pahelwan on Wednesday in one of the criminal cases against him filed by MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi. The 3rd Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate acquitted him in a criminal intimidation case.

Pahelwan will have to remain in jail as there are other serious criminal cases against him like trying to murder the legislator.

The MIM floor leader had filed a complaint against Pahelwan in 2012 after a local web channel 'Barq News' aired a purported interview with Mohammed Pahelwan, in which he allegedly threatened the legislator.

Banjara Hills police booked a case under Section 506 (Criminal Intimidation). The police later arrested Pahelwan by remanding him under the prisoners transit warrant as he was already lodged at the Cherlapally jail in an attack case.

Sources said that during the trial, the judge while pronouncing his order, acquitted the accused under Section 248 (1) of CrPC. During the trial the reporter of the web channel Mohammed Mujtaba was also subjected to cross examination. Pahelwan was charge sheeted earlier in this case and the trial commenced in August 2015.