An alert police team of Kamareddy caught a gang of poachers who killed two deer in the early hours of Saturday (May 7), after a dramatic chase, as the accused tried in vain to flee in a car.
All the six accused, majority of them from Hyderabad, were hunted down and taken into custody. Along with the car in which the gang tried to flee, another car inside which they stuffed the two dead deer, an air rifle and six mobile phones were seized from them.
The prime accused Mohammed Hameed Uzzman, 48, who claimed that he was a competitive rifle shooter, and his associates Ubed Khan, 29, Mir Mustafa Ali, Farzan Gulam Hussain, 34, Syed Rashid, and Mir Tayeb Ali, drove in two four-wheelers to the forest area of Polkampet in Lingampally mandal of Nizamabad, reportedly late on Friday night.
