The city police on Sunday arrested four more activists of the Hindu Vahini on the charge of their involvement in the series of attacks in Secunderabad a few days ago. With this, the police have so far caught ten activists for attacking members of a particular community.
The four persons detained on Sunday have been identified as T. Shiva Kumar alias Shiva (28) of Balamrai in Begumpet, D. Jeevan Kumar (23) of Hyderbasthi, U. Raju alias Rajender (47) of Chintal and Gopi Shyamsunder (33) of Kacheguda. Two bikes, four mobile phones and a sword were recovered from them.
Police said Shiva was working as a collection agent in a steel shop, while Jeevan was an electrician and Raju was running a canteen in a degree college. Gopi was working as a sales coordinator in a showroom.
DCP (North) Ch. Srikanth told reporters that the accused were involved in the attacks reported under Alwal, Trimulgherry and Bowenpally police station limits on November 27 and December 13. “We caught them during vehicle checking at Trimulgherry,” he said.
Cases under Sections 120B (conspiracy), 153A (promoting enmity between two communities) and 307 (attempt to murder) of IPC were registered against them. “We will seek custody of the four persons to elicit more information from them. We are also verifying their involvement in the attacks reported earlier,” the DCP said.
Mr. Srikanth said patrolling has been intensified to prevent any untoward incidents and apart from checking vehicles at vulnerable places at night, vigil was also being maintained by special pickets.
The police had earlier arrested six activists of Hindu Vahini -- S. Sadanand, Shakthi Vinod, K. Unni Krishna, P.Bhargav, S.V. Santosh and P. Kalyan on similar charges. They were currently under judicial remand, police officials added.