Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday vowed that all the accused linked to the notorious gangster Mohammed Nayeemuddin, alias Nayeem, howsoever mighty they might would be punished. However he rejected the demand of the Opposition parties for a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the activities of the Nayeem gang saying the Telangana police was fully capable of doing the job.
The Chief Minister KCR was replying to a discussion on the crimes of the gang led by Nayeem, who was shot dead by the police in an encounter on August 8 at Shadnagar, 40 kms away from Hyderabad.
KCR said that for the past two and a half decades Nayeem gang had committee heinous crimes in the State. “The activities of the gang which commenced in Bhongir as epicenter gradually spread to the entire State of Telangana”, he said.
Nayeem who had started out as a left wing radical students union had later joined the Maoists ranks. After his surrender to the police he turned an informant helping the police in anti Maoist operations and later became a full time gangster running a mafia of land grabbing, violent crimes, extortions and the settlements allegedly with the backing from several police officials in Hyderabad and several other districts. He had allegedly accumulated properties and wealth of hundreds of crores of rupees.
Holding the previous Governments responsible, KCR sad that during their reigns Nayeem had continued his activities without any hindrance. After the formation of the TRS Government several victims of Nayeem gang approached the Government for justice, he added.
Stating that all the details of the case can not be made public at this juncture, he said that all those who helped Nayeem gang, irrespective of which party they belonged to will be brought to book. “He had committed most of his crimes in 10 years rule of Congress party in the State”, KCR said.