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Publication: Deccan Chronicle
Date: February 22, 2004
An executive working with a multinational
bank in the twin cities and her husband allegedly killed a government clerk
who had paid the couple Rs 1.25 lakh and was demanding that they fulfil
their promise of getting a job for his son.
They killed the man's friend, also
a government clerk, because he happened to be around. The bodies of the
two men, still smouldering after they were killed and burnt, was recovered
by the police from Jeedimetla on Thursday.
The couple was identified by the
police as Sana, an executive with the Banjara Hills branch of HSBC, and
her husband Syed Ishaq, residents of Mogul Residency at Tolichowki.
Ishaq is an employee of Cox &
Kings, a travel agency. They killed V Bhoomaiah, a senior assistant in
the office of Joint Director of Agriculture in Nizamabad, and his friend
Narasimha Swamy, senior inspector-cum-auditor in the office of District
Co-operative Audit Office at Chanda Vihar in Hyderabad.
Bhoomaiah had paid Rs 1.25 lakh
to the Ishaqs for a job for his son V Pavan Kumar over a year-and-a-half
back. After the job did not materialise, he began pressing the couple,
after which they decided to do away with him.
On Wednesday, Bhoomaiah and Swamy
went to the couple's house yet again, where they were murdered by hired
killers.
"We tried to convince him (Bhoomaiah).
They didn't listen to us. They blackmailed us for the past one-and-a-half
years. We asked for 15 more days. I thought of clearing the amount with
interest. But they told me that they would get us jailed. So I had eliminated
them," Ishaq said. But his wife Sana disassociated herself:
"I was not aware of their plan to
eliminate Pavan's father. That night they were sitting in the house when
I returned around 11.30 pm. Bhoomaiah and his friend abused me and were
not convinced with our explanations regarding the delay in repaying the
money."
"I told uncle (Bhoomaiah) that I
would bring tea and went into kitchen. When I came out I found my husband
and others killing them," said Sona.
The couple identified the hired
killers as Mir Majeed Ali, 19, of Petlaburz, Mohd Moinduddin, 20, of Chelapura,
Shaik Asgar, 20 a plumber and resident of Petlaburz and Syed Amjad, 18,
of Puranapul.
Police tracked down the killers
on a complaint given by Pavan Kumar.
Pavan Kumar met Ishaq in 2000, when
he was working with NIIT at Hyderabad.
Cyberabad Police Commissioner M
Mahendar Reddy said, "Ishaq promised to secure him a job in an MNC like
HSBC from three others and collected Rs 10,000 as advance. In February
2003 Pavan was introduced to Sana. They collected Rs 1.25 lakh from him
but failed to get him a job. They were under pressure from Pavan and his
father Bhoomaiah either to get the job or return the amount."
As the pressure began to mount,
Ishaq began planning to kill Pavan.
On February 18, Ishaq contacted
the killers. "The killers entered the flat as refrigerator repairmen.
At Ishaq's signal, Majeed and Amjad strangled Bhoomaiah and Asgar and Moin
strangled Narasimha Swamy. The killers dumped the bodies at Srikrishna
Nagar in a car and set them on fire," Reddy said.
