Hyderabad's wanted terror suspect list growing, several hiding in Pakistan

By Udumula Sudhakar Reddy
Wanted terror suspects list of state police is growing big. Eight 
accused including Bhatkal brothers Riyaz Bhatkal and Iqbal Bhatkal, founder of Indian 
Mujahideen Amir Reza khan are still wanted in Gokul chat and Lumbini park blast. They are 
apart from around 25 terror suspects wanted by Special Investigation Team of city police.
Hyderabad units of National Investigation Agency and Central Bureau of Investigation and 
Cyberabad and district police too have their list of wanted in various cases they were 
dealing with.
Several “missing” Hyderabadi youth are said to be in the terror camps in Karachi and 
Pakistan-occupied Kashmir intelligence source said.  Absconding terror suspects belonging 
to the Indian Mujahideen (IM), Bada Sajid from Hyderabad, and Amir Reza Khan, Abdul Bari, 
Farhautullah gori, Zaki ur Rehman of Lashkar E Toiba,  and those of several modules are 
still absconding from several years. Those of Shahed Bilal module, Saleem Junaid module, 
Fasiuddin gang are still absconding.   The ’Karachi connection’ of missing terror 
suspects from Hyderabad is the biggest worry for the cops.
In Lumbini park blast case Riyaz Bhatkal alias Ahmad Bhai, Amir Reza Khan alias Muttaki 
and Iqbal Bhatkal alias Mohammed Bhai are still absconding.

Dilshuknagar blast; NIA visits jails across the State to speak to terror cases accused

udumula Sudhakar Reddy

National Investigation Agency sleuths probing the Dilshuknagar twin 
blasts begun questioning and grilling the terror suspects lodged in jails across the 
State. NIA Hyderabad unit teams were also on trial of terror suspects in Bihar tracking 
them. The investigators are also analysis phone calls made to outside the country ad 
other suspicious calls from the towers at Dilshuknagar blast site.
Delhi police teams also questioned Syed Maqbool of Indian Mujahideen in Tihar jail and 
where as NIA and local police spoke to two accused Ali Bhai and Feroze whom Maqbool  had 
met in January 2012. Maqbool was arrested in 2012 October and interrogated in November by 
AP and Delhi police in which he revealed Dilshuknagar was the target of Indian 
Mujahideen. The questioning of Maqbool would be crucial for investigators as he did recce 
after handled by Bhatkal brothers.
 Inspector General (prisons) Mr.  B. Sunil Kumar said,"after Charlapally prison rioting 
in 2011 we have transferred prisoners in terror cases across the State to all jails to 
avoid mixing up. NIA teams went to Chanchalaguda and Nellore and other prisons.,".
Chanchalaguda prison superintendent Mr.B Saidaiah said ,”NIA verified the antecedents and 
moolakhat records of two of the accused including Zia Ul Haq,” Zia Ul Haq was named 
accused in Odeon theatre blast.
NIA teams visited Bihar, Pune and Uttar Pradesh to question the IM operatives lodged in 
jaisl in various blast cases.  NIA teams were also trying to track down one suspect 
Tabrez  a pharmacy student who was missing from Azamghar.
NIA teams are focusing on Yasin Bhatkal, Tabrez and Waqas who were the key operatives.

Dilshuknagar Post Blast: Surveillance cameras must for buildings in Hyderabad

U Sudhakar Reddy

State government has now made surveillance cameras must for all 
commercial buildings, malls, hotels and has decided to bring amendment in the municipal 
acts to change the building rules. A reward of Rs 10 lakh was also announced for 
informants of twin blasts.
Chief Minister Mr. N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday Okayed the proposal to spent Rs 450 
crore in next six months to set up 3500 cameras in Hyderabad and Cyberabad police 
commissionarate limits.
After a review meeting by CM with state police officials Home Minister Ms. P Sabita Indra 
Reddy said ,” A reward of Rs 10 lakh was announced for informers of terror suspects 
involved in two blasts. We have found some clues regarding the blast,”
She added ,”Apart from installing new cameras it was also decided to identify an agency 
to maintain them. In Cyberabad also recently around 30 cameras were installed in IT area 
of Madhapur. The IT companies association will be helping police to maintain them,”
Home Minister said ,”as part of security measures the buildings like hotels, malls, 
theatres should have electronic surveillance and rules will be amended. For old buildings 
also we are going to make it compulsory. Regarding residential buildings gate communities 
can come forward to do this. We will also bring awareness among apartment residents for 
this.
Commissioner of Police Mr Anurag Sharma said ,”Thee are around 303 Cameras in the city in 
which 23 are spoilt and removed. Around 15 are temporarily out of order. At present 265 
are working,”

Dilshuknagar blasts: Commissioner of Police Anurag Sharma admits terror alerts and Maqbool report but denies taking them lightlyma admits

U Sudhakar Reddy

Commissioner of Police Mr Anurag Sharma denied taking terror alerts 
lightly while admitting that city police received three general alerts from centre and 
also the specific interrogation reports of Syed Maqbool by AP Counter Intelligence and 
Delhi police that terrorists planned to strike at various crowded areas in the city.
“In the month of November 2012 a team of Intelligence sleuths went to Delhi and 
interrogated members of Indian Mujahideen who were arrested by Delhi police. In Terror 
suspects conducted recce at Dilshuknagar, Abids, Tank Bund, Begumbazar, Laldarwaja and 
Ranigunj and it was revealed during interrogation.  In this particular module majority of 
them were arrested. We did not take warning lightly. From November to till date we have 
been conducting regular anti sabotage, vehicle checking at these places,”
Anurag Sharma said ,”On February 15 we got a circular from centre that attacks may take 
place in four cities including that Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore.  Now again 
this was promptly communicated down the line and we took our precautionary measures to 
ensure that things don’t go wrong.  Two alerts later on February 19 and 20th reiterated 
the same. In November we were at maximum alert because the incidents that were happening 
in the old city. Our entire police force was deployed,”
He added ,”For the past four months were doing work. At Dilshuknagar alone we have 
conducted anti sabotage checks 17 times in November 2012, 17 times in December, 18 times 
January 2013 and 13 times in Feburary. Similarly checks were carried out at Abids, Tank 
Bund, Begumbazar, Laldarwaja and Ranigunj. A total 487 anti sabotage checks were carried 
at these places,”
Anurag said in the city in November 2012 around 1416 vehicle checkings were done and it 
continued almost at the same number and in February 1245 vehicles checking are done. He 
also added eight mock drills were conducted along with Octopus in the city. Around 16 
bomb squads have checked around 1555 anti sabotage checks in the city. “Around nine hoax 
calls we attended in the past four months. We have agencies in the state which basically 
monitor the terrorist activities  they have specially created that is our counter 
intelligence and octopus. We have been regularly in touch with the both the agencies to 
avoid any such acts,”
Anurag added “ I know that no amount of explanation will be adequate to console the 
families of the deceased. But definitely we have been doing our best and that in all 
humiliation I submit that we tried our best. Security forces have to succeed every time 
and terrorist have to succeed only once. Definitely we will crack this case and get the 
culprits,”

Dilshuknagar was on terror target,Maqbool revelation to AP and Delhi police ignored

Udumula Sudhakar Reddy

The conspiracy to target Dilshuknagar was revealed by terror suspects 
who were arrested by Delhi police in October of 2012. Dilshuknagar was one among five to 
six places which were identified by the terror suspects for planting the bombs and a 
recce was done for the same. Indian Mujahideen’s key operative Riyan Bhatkal is now 
emerging as main conspirator for Dilshuknagar blasts. The accused Syed Maqbool alias 
Zuber a resident of Dharmabad in Nanded revealed to Delhi Police and as well as a team of 
Counter Intelligence that grilled him that they conducted reconnaissance of Dilshuknagar 
and Abids in Hyderabad. In 2012, Maqbool helped one Imran in doing a recce of Dilkhush 
Nagar, Begum Bazar and Abids on motor cycle on the instructions of Riyaz Bhatkal.
Police found that for each operation four separate cells operate. A top source of home 
department said,”recce will be conducted by one group. The other group plans it. Bomb 
making is done by another group. For execution there will be a separate group. Maqbool 
was part of recce group,”.
The suspected then planned fidayeen attacks on Buddhist shrines in Bodh Gaya in Bihar.  
Maqbool was arrested on October 23 in 2012. AP police teams went to Delhi in November 
2012 and grilled him. The other accused named are Imran, Irfan and Asad. It is all part 
of Pune module.  NIA experts say the modes operandi looks like that 2011 Mumbai blasts. 
“Indian Mujahideen is like off shoot of Lashkar E Taiba. IM is nothing but Indian branch 
of LET,” said a police official.

Police records say that Maqbool had close links with Azam Ghori of Warangal who was 
killed in encounter in 2000. Both are accused in the a murder of Krishna murthy in 1999 
and were convicted for life. In 2009 he was released from jail on commutation of 
sentence.  He was also earlier involved in the murder of Devender who allegedly 
encroached land in Uppal. He was named in the murder of jeweller Mahaveer Prasad in 2000.
Police said ,”Maqbool was instrumental in the formation of IMMM (Indian Muslim Mohammadin 
Mujahidin) at village Manchiryal in 1999 along with Azam Ghori and Roshan  Baig. They 
worked in the guise of social reforms to stop dowry system in society, to fight against 
corruption and to stop pornographic films. It was Ghori who taught Maqbool to prepare 
LEDs as that they can cause blasts in theaters where porn films are screened. The accused 
were named in bomb blast in Kakatiya Hotel, Lal Darwaza, Blast Sharada  theatre and Lamba 
theater.
Meanwhile police are also verifying whether Obaidur Rehman and others of Lashkar E Toiba 
module of Karnataka may also be behind the terror act. “The module has planned attacks on 
politicians and journalists in Hyderabad,’ said an official.

After Dilshuknagar crowded Ameerpet and Kukatpally next soft targets for terror suspects

Udumula Sudhakar Reddy
The crowded Ameerpet and Kukatpally are next soft targets for terror 
suspects as they are highly crowded localities with several coaching institutions, IT 
training companies, theatres, hostels and shopping centres according to experts. In 
Dilshuknagar around six students who are pursuing their software education and preparing 
for competitive exams in the institutions near Konark theatre died in the bomb blasts.

Home Minister Ms P Sabita Indra Reddy said,"Terrorists selected Dilshuknagar as target as 
it is a crowded area. In Ameerpet and Kukatpally too it is heavily crowded. We have asked 
the police to take necessary steps to ensure safety,”
At Dilshuknagar the bomb blast spot was so busy that it has a bus depot, IT training 
companies, theatres, and shopping complexes.
“A similar situation prevails in Ameerpet and Kukatpally. Terrorists want maximum damage 
to be done when they plant a bomb. All the blast carried out by Indian Mujahideen modules 
at crowded places. At Ameerpet near Huda Maithrivanam due to educational institutions, 
shopping complexes and theatres it is highly crowded. Similar situation exists at 
Kukatpally. There are no surveillance cameras. There is no visible policing in these 
areas,” says a security expert.
Ms. Mrudula Alluri, resident of Vivekananda NAgar Colony and student at Rishi UBR College 
at Kukatpally says , “ Kukatpally is generally crowded with hundreds on roads during peak 
timings are around 6pm to 9 in the evening with most of the institutes, having their 
batch switches around that time. The heavily crowded shopping malls, with all the major 
textile companies and others having their outlets in the area. While Traffic Police can 
be found around the clock, there is no other major security arrangement given to the 
area.”
Mr. Suraj.P a student in his second year integrated MA in Hyderabad Central University 
and a resident at Kukatpally Housing board, expresses his concern at the similarity 
between Kukatpally and Dilsukhnagar, “ Both are educational hubs, major centers where 
students, professionals, shoppers, families frequent everyday. Kukatpally alone has more 
than 30 educational centers including training institutes for JAva, Dot NEt, CA training 
institutes, Private Colleges, and so on . The JNTU circle especially is crowded almost 
round the clock. While there was increased police security today, generally except a few 
traffic cops there is hardly any security in these areas”

Dilshuknagar bomb blast: Too many probe agencies leading to confusion

Too many agencies at the bomb blast scene at Dilkushnagar have lead 
to confusion and chaos. On Thursday night Central Forensic experts and National 
Investigative Agency experts had a minor argument over collecting the samples from the 
scene. Octopus, City clues, APFSL experts, NSG Post Blast Investigation Team, CFSL, NIA, 
CID officials were at the scene collecting the clues.
Investigation is also being carried out by many agencies like NIA, Counter intelligence, 
Hyderabad police and Cyberabad police.  Home Minister Ms P Sabita Indra Reddy said,” Both 
centre and state agencies are working in tandem to unravel the conspiracy and nab the 
accused. NIA, NSG, Octopus and state police are working together to find out who are 
behind this. We can’t immediately name who are behind it,”

Dilshuknagar bomb signature points finger at Indian Mujahideen, slurry, circuit timer used, Nuts, bolts, nails used a sharpnels. IM used similar bombs in Delhi and Mumbai

Udumula Sudhakar Reddy 

Circuit timer was used to detonate the bomb with Ammonium Nitrate 
emulsifier (slurry) stuffed in an Aluminium container. Forensic experts of State police 
unraveled the bomb signature and confirmed that these kinds of bombs are used Indian 
Mujahideen terror modules in Mumbai and Delhi blasts earlier. A preliminary forensic 
report was given to the Investigating agencies. The forensic doctors of OGH mortuary who 
conducted post mortem examination found nails, nuts and bolts inside the bodies. The bomb 
making is pointing finger at IM officials said.
To cause maximum damage the terrorists used nuts, bolts and nails in the explosive 
material which acted as missiles/sharpnels. Investigators ruled out the use of RDX.
An investigating official said ,”the circuit timer is based on delayed mechanism on 
circuit board which detonates the bomb at the time as required. Slurry explosive weighing 
around one Kilogram(from 700 to 1000grams) was used in the second bomb near Konark theater to have maximum 
impact. In the first bomb less amount of explosive material was used.  A 3.9 volt 
battery was used as power source. A detonator wire was also found. After assembling the 
bomb in an aluminium container it was wrapped in a cloth and placed in a bag. Then the 
bag was hung to a bicycle. Same kind of bomb signature was found at two places,” National 
Security Guard Post Blast Investigation Team also found a timer at the scene of the 
offence sources said.  The bombs are placed at a distance of 150 metres.
As there is no live bomb found in twin blasts unlike previous cases it was a tough task 
for the bomb expert to determine the parts ad mechanism in the Improvised Explosive 
Devices used by the terror suspects. The flames that were found after the blasts are due 
to the fuel in vehicles.
Clues teams of city police lead by Dr Gopinath and Prakash found 15 vital clues including 
the melted Aluminium pieces, cells used in calculator, battery, nails, and nuts and bolts 
at the scene of the offence.
Osmania Medical College forensic department head Dr P Hari krishna said  "We retrieved 
nails, nuts and bolts and metal pieces from the bodies that pierced. The bodies are 
mutilated in the abdomen and lower parts(legs) indicating that the bombs were placed at 
lower level. The injuries are similar to that of Gokul Chat blasts. The only difference 
is in Gokul chat there are more injuries on head as the bomb was placed on a height,”
Experts say that difference in bomb making in Gokul Chat in 2007 and Dilshuknagar is that 
wooden containers were used then and now Aluminium were used.

Blast investigators scout video footage of Surveillance cameras, Hard disks of CC tv camera recordings at railway stations, bus stations collected

U Sudhakar Reddy

Counter intelligence and city police are verifying the CC TV camera 
footage of shops and business establishments covering the streets at Dilshuknagar bomb 
blast sites to identify the suspects who parked the cycles with bombs. The explosion was 
captured by one of the cameras but cops are still scouting for the suspects. Sources in 
home department said ,’we are hoping of getting some information about the suspects in 
the CC TV cameras of the shops as nothing about suspects have been found in the traffic 
cameras,”
Investigators also collected hard disks from Railway stations of Secunderabad, Nampally 
and Kachiguda and bus stations at Imlibun and JBS to scout the videos to find iff any 
suspects may have hurriedly entered the station and boarded a train or bus soon after the 
blasts who left the bicycles with bombs. The traffic CC TV cameras at Rajiv Chowk of 
Dilshuknagar where the bombs went off did not have footage of suspects.
Commissioner of Police Mr. Anurag Sharma said,”it is not true that the wires of the 
traffic CCTV cameras are cut at Rajiv Chowk. That particular camera is not covering the 
blast site. We are verifying other possible video footage,” Hyderabad Traffic Deputy 
Commissioner of Police-1 Mr P V S Ramakrishna said, “the cameras are working and we have 
shared the footage,”
Police are collecting the surveillance camera footage from a mobile shop, cloth show room 
near the two blasts sites.

Dilshuknagar bomb blasts: Two terror strike cases likely to be handed over to National Investigation Agency NIA

U Sudhakar Reddy
Two cases of terror strikes registered by Saroornagar and Malakpet 
police are likely to be transferred to National Investigation Agency. The Counter 
intelligence, the anti-terror agency of state police will be assisting NIA. Hyderabad 
Commissioner of police Mr. Anurag Sharma said”the cases are still with local police and 
are likely to be transferred to NIA”. He added no suspects are detained so far in 
connection with the blasts.

Special teams of city and Cyberabad police formed to investigate the blasts conducted 
searches in lodges and house in the radius of few kilometres around the Dilshuknagar 
blast site to verify whether the suspects stayed in the past few months. Police are also 
reconstructing the crime scene with the versions of eye witnesses who told that they saw 
a man parking the cycle and left the spot in hurry on Thursday evening. This was tallied 
with another eye witness who said he found a group of suspects who left the area a few 
minutes before the blast.
Cyberabad police who formed four teams to crack one of the blasts has sought the help of 
public in cracking the case. Cyberabad Commissioner of Police Mr Ch D Tirumala Rao said,” 
we will give a reward up to Rs 20 lakh to those who give us information on the suspects and also 
keep it confidetial. We have intensified the investigation. I am confident that we can 
crack the case. So far we haven’t arrested any. We are working on some leads. Those who 
have taken a wrong path in the society are resorting to these kinds of attacks,”
Interestingly the bomb went off a few minutes after Hyderabad Commissioner of Police Mr. 
Anurag Sharma left the Dilshuknagar Sai Baba temple after Thursday worship.
Complainant Mr G Anand 35 a trader a resident of Dwarakapuri Colony in Saroornagar 
blast(the second blast that took place at 7.05pm) case(crime number 146/2013) said ,”I 
heard huge sound in front of a mirchi shop beside Anand tiffin centre at Rajiv Chowk. 
When I went there I found smoke all around the vicinity. Later I saw dead bodies 
scattered in the area,”
Saroornagar police booked a case under criminal conspiracy(120B), causing hurt(324IPC), 
causing hurt using dangerous weapons(326 IPC), 307(attempt to murder0, 320 IPC(murder), 
124(A)(Sedition) 153 A(promoting enmity between wire) 201(disappearing of evidence) read 
with 120 B(criminal conspiracy), section 3 & 5 of explosive substances act and section 
16, 17 and 18 of Unlawful activities prevention act.
In Malakpet bomb blast case the complaint Mr Shaik Jani Pasha an APSRTC bus driver said 
,’aorund 7.00 pm I crossed the road towards bys stop close to Venkatadri theatre to have 
soft drink in a bakery. I heard two deafening sound one after the other,” In the second 
case police didn’t add Unlawful activities prevention act. They booked the case only 
under murder, attempt murder, criminal conspiracy and explosive substances act.
Meanwhile Crime Investigation Department Additional DG Mr T Krishna Prasad along with 
bomb experts visited the scene and later he walked up to Sai Baba Temple and then to 
Saroornagar police station. He said ,”there are no indications that we are given the 
case,”

Maoists losing hold in India: Chattisgarh, Jharkhand still strong bastions, Odisha, Bihar have significant presence, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharasthra and UP Reds presence minimal

Udumula Sudhakar Reddy 

  Maoists are losing hold drastically in red corridor across the country including the State where they could hold only a fewer armed training camps and jan adalats.
Ministry of Home Affair’s latest report revealed that incidents the left wing extremist 
targeting the economic establishments like public sector have also come down. In AP 
Maoists failed to conduct not even one armed training camp for the past two years. The 
situation is so worse for Maoists that they could conduct only one Jan Adalat in the 
State.
According to MHA report in the country left wing extremists held 51 armed training camps 
in 2012 as against 84 in previous year mostly in Chattisgarh and Jharkhand. In economic 
targets naxals hit mostly at telephone exchanges, towers, forest, road culverts and 
railway properties.
Maoists could hold only 62 Jan adalats ( people’s court) in 2012 out of 97 they held in corresponding period of 2011. Apart from Chattisgarh and Jharkhand the two others states 
were they have significant presense are Odisha and Bihar.
A senior IPS official said ,”In AP, West Bengal, Maharasthra and Uttar Pradesh their 
presence is felt minimal except in borders”
Former Director General of Sashatra Seema Bal (central paramilitary force) Mr M V Krishna 
Rao says  ,”Maoist political ideology will not die so easily. The situation of Maoist 
activity we are now witnessing in the State of Andhra Pradesh is related to tactics. 
Fifteen years ago Maoism was so virulent in AP where police stations are attacked and now 
it has changed. The same military tactics used by Maoists are adopted by the police 
forces to counter them. Naxals couldn’t withstand before the armed power of the State. 
However the political ideology can’t be wiped out. It has been existing from hundreds of 
years,”
Chattisgargh topped with 24 armed training camps followed by Jharkand 12. Last year 
witnessed 24 attacks on telephone exchanges and towers mostly in Bihar(10) and only two 
in AP. The economic targets like NMDC were attacked in Chattisgargh by naxals.  There are 
three instances of attacking school buildings.

Five cardinals from India to take part in election of next Pope, : Pope Benedict exit stuns catholic community in Hyderabad

U Sudhakar Reddy
Five cardinals from India will be taking part in  electing the next 
Pope, head of the Roman Catholic Church. One of  them is Cardinal Ivan Dias Archbishop 
Emeritus of Mumbai who was in  the running for the top job after Pope John 
Paul died.He is now not a front runner to succeed Pope Benedict, who, most  unusually resigned on 
Monday, but church sources say that if a  cardinal from Asia is considered for the   
papacy, and depending on  his health, Cardinal Dias could still be a possible candidate.Cardinal Dias is Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the  Evangelisation of Peoples.
Of the 120 cardinals from across the world who will vote for the  next Pope, there are 
five from India: Cardinal Dias; Cardinal  Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, 53, Major 
Archbishop of  Thiruvananthapuram of the Syro-Malankars; Cardinal George  Alencherry, 
67,  Major Archbishop of Ernakulam, Angamaly of the  Syro-Malabars; Cardinal Oswald 
Gracias, 68, Metropolitan Archbishop  of Bombay and Cardinal Telesphore Placidus Toppo, 
73, Metropolitan  Archbishop of Ranchi.

India has two other Cardinals who will not be voting because they  have crossed the age 
limit of 80 years: Cardinal Simon Ignatius  Pimenta, 92, Metropolitan Archbishop 
Emeritus of Bombay; and  Cardinal Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, 89, Metropolitan 
Archbishop  Emeritus of Bengaluru.Under the system followed in the church for selecting the Pope, all  those in the 
electoral college are candidates and voters at the same  time.Vicar-General of the Hyderabad Archdiocese, Monsignor Swarna  Bernard, told this 
newspaper: "Though we are stunned at the  resignation of Pope Benedict, we hope this 
move will help the  Catholic Church."On Cardinal Dias's candidature, Father Swarna Bernard said, "Ivan  Dias is an honest and 
sincere cardinal. He was born in 1936. He is  very able and traditional. If an Asian, 
that too an Indian, is  considered for the papacy, it will be a matter of great pride 
for  the Catholic Church. He is close to Pope Benedict."The Cardinals will begin the process in Rome in March to elect the new  Pope. The conclave 
may take days or weeks and there will be several  rounds of voting, said a church source."If black smoke appears, it means that they haven't elected anyone  yet. If white smoke 
appears, the Pope is elected. Then the  announcement "Habemus Papam (We have a Pope) is 
made," said a church  official.The most viable candidates are considered to be Cardinal Timothy  Dolan from New York, 
Cardinal Peter Appiah Turkson from Ghana,  Cardinal Marc Ouellet from Canada, Cardinal 
Joao Braz de Aviz Odilo  Pedro Scherer from Brazil, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi and 
Cardinal  Angelo Scola of Italy, Leonardo Sandri of Argentina, Christoph  Schoenborn of 
Austria and Luis Tagle of the Philippines."Cardinal Turkson from Ghana has a fair chance if they choose to  elect an African. Luis 
Tagle of the Philippines is an Asian.  Cardinal Ivan Dias's name is not making the 
rounds now like it did  after John Paul," said a Church source.

Human animal conflict: Mystery over wild beast testing Hyderabad limits: Hyenas and wild dogs stray into Shamshabad, Locals say it could be a leopard

Udumula Sudhakar Reddy
Aggressive wild animals of dog family including hyenas, wild dogs and wolves are testing 
city limits again and again. They struck at Choudariguda near Shamshabad on Saturday 
night killing calves leading to panic in the area. Locals are claiming that they are 
leopard attacks and foresters are maintaining that they are hyenas or wild wolves or 
Asiatic wild dogs also known as dholes. Forest officials who came to a conclusion that 
they are canidae family not felidae family (cat family) but mystery over which animal is 
still continuing.
Shamshabad forest range officer Mr. Hari Mohan Reddy says,”we have been receiving 
complaints from the residents surrounding Shamshabad that they have spotted leopard. Our 
expert tiger trackers of Srisailam have come here recently and ruled out the movement of 
leopard. They are chenchu tribals who can easily find it. We have also set up traps for 
the leopard with a stray dog and goat. The bait remained alive for several days. If it is 
a leopard it would have gone for the stray dog. Even the pug marks are different. We 
strongly believe they are wild dogs as they attack from behind. The nature of injury are 
also resembling that of wild dog,”
Locals have a different story to tell. Residents of a neighbourhood near Shamshabad are 
complaining that the foresters are not doing enough to protect them and their livestock 
from aggressive wild animals straying off from the nearby shrub forests.
Mr. M Narendar a resident Choudariguda “they are 100 per leopards. We have spotted them. 
Forest officials are not taking any measures. We are going to stage protest at 
collectorate soon. They have killed at least to 15 to 20 calves. We were told that they 
can even kill and drag infant babies sleeping in the house. The situation is alarming in 
Jukal and Choudariguda village. We are terrified. We are requesting electricity 
department to stop power cuts during nights,” He added there lot of superstitions 
surrounding the movement of these wild animals.
Experts from Nehru Zoological park says the disturbances in city surrounding forest is 
leading to the situation and their analysis is still deepening the mystery.
Nehru Zoological park curator Mr. A Shankaran ‘We have been getting reports on the 
movements of hyenas in Shamshabad, Mamidipally and hitech city area for the past few 
years. These areas are known habitats for hyenas. By all probability they could be hyena 
attacks. The Second possibility could be wild wolves. But wild dogs we have doubts as 
they are shy animals and move in groups in 20 to 30s. They live in dense forest. And wild 
dogs move in packs and they There is no dense forest near this year. Hyenas, wolves and 
wild dogs(dholes) belong to wild family of dogs,”
Zoo parks director Mr Mallikarjun said "The hyenas or wolves or dholes never used to come 
in the human settlement. It may be disturbances in their habitat which make them come 
down here.

Girl child discrimination: Man throws out new born and her mom on the road in Hyderabad India

Udumula Sudhakar Reddy
A 15-day old girl baby was thrown out on the middle of the busy 
Rampally road by her father on Sunday evening as he wanted his wife to deliver a male 
baby but she gave birth to girl child. The girl baby and the mother were rescued by 
passers-by who informed the Keesara police of Cyberabad commissionarate and child welfare 
committee authorities.'

Police launched hunt for the accused scrap dealer Mr M Balaiah 34 a resident of RTC 
colony. Ms B Rani an advocate of Rangareddy court said ,”“I was going home from our farm 
house at Rampally to Vidyanagar.. When our vehicle reached RTC colony main road we found 
the baby and later the women crying. Both of them were thrown out by her husband who 
locked the house and fled. We informed police immediately,”
M Swapna the mother of the baby says ,”He used to torture me daily. Two months ago he 
took me to a scanning centre where it was found to be a female baby. From then he was 
beating up me. On January 26 the day when I suffered labor pains he hit me hardly on my 
abdomen. I was taken in 108 ambulance to the hospital where I delivered the baby. Doctors 
warned him despite he didn't see me or the child. When I went home he forced me not to 
breast feed the baby. For the past few days she was not fed properly. He didn't allow me 
to eat. His mother Ilavva also came and she abused me,”
Ranga Reddy district child welfare committee chairperson Ms V Padmavati says ,”we have 
taken up the case sumotu. We also lodged complaint with Keesara police against her 
husband. She will be shifted to shelter home along with the baby. There are many injuries 
on the woman’s body. The baby was born on Republic day. His first wife died after giving 
birth to three girl children. He married another Swapna from an orphanage in Gajwel,”