Two gruesome killings bring to limelight the easy availability of firearms
The two shooting incidents in a single day in and around the city have brought into focus the seriousness on the part of the police in dealing with gun rackets
Hyderabad: The two gruesome killings in the city and Medak district bring into focus the accessibility of firearms to criminals.
On Tuesday, a CPI leader was shot dead at Malakpet in broad daylight by some persons. The police said that the assailants had used two locally made firearms to shoot and kill the person. In the other incident, a Congress leader was shot dead in Medak using firearms by some persons on Monday night.
In both incidents, the clues teams stated that the assailants had used firearms to kill the two persons. Although the incident occurred at different places, the use of country-made firearms suspected to be smuggled from North India once again brings into the limelight the easy availability of firearms.
The Telangana police have on different instances arrested some persons for allegedly bringing and supplying firearms to local gangs and individuals. However, the two shooting incidents in a single day in and around the city have brought into focus the seriousness on the part of the police in dealing with gun rackets.
“The local people are getting in touch with those from North India and through them, getting the weapons. Continuously maintaining a watch on hamlets with North India migrants is practically impossible,” said an official of Special Operations Teams, adding that the local police have to do the surveillance work.
The country-made firearms are manufactured at illegal run factories in Mirzapur, Aligarh, Muzzaffarnagar and other districts of Uttar Pradesh alongside Munger, Banka, Jamui, Arwal, Kaimur, and Karbi Anglong districts of Bihar.
The country-made short firearms are sold for a price of Rs 25,000 and Rs 50,000 along with the bullets. The purchasers do not favour big firearms due to problems in concealing and carrying them.
People who are natives of the districts in UP and Bihar who have access to the persons working in these factories buy the firearms and sell them in the other cities, and earn some profit. The firearms are hidden in luggage bags and shifted to different cities, sometimes they are hidden in small bags and transported along with fruits, vegetables and other goods in trucks.
“Whenever we get leads, we apprehend the persons and seize the firearms. Compared to previous years, the smuggling of firearms has come down,” said an official of the Hyderabad Commissioner’s Task Force.
Police Diary:
May 29, 2025: Uttar Pradesh duo caught peddling country-made firearms in Hyderabad. Mohammed Zeeshan and Mohammed Ameer by SOT Rachakonda.
15 January 2025: Hare Krishna Yadav hails from Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh. Two pistols, a tapancha, and ten live rounds were recovered from the suspect by Rachakonda SOT
September 28, 2024: Rachakonda Special Operations Team caught a man who was allegedly in possession of country-made weapons. B Sai Ram Reddy, a native of Andhra Pradesh and residing at Suraram. Seven weapons, including a pistol, a revolver, a tapancha and four air pistols, along with 11 live rounds.
