A day after the police caught a film distributor on charge of organising cricket betting, a local court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced him to undergo five days of imprisonment.
Forty-six-year-old Karnati Sudheer was caught by the Hyderabad Police Commissioner’s Task Force (North) sleuths on Tuesday. “On a tip-off that he was accepting bets from punters on the ongoing IPL cricket matches, we raided a place in East Marredpally and caught him,” TF Inspector P. Balavanthaiah said.
Having seized ₹36,100 and receipts believed to be linked to punters, the TF sleuths handed over him to Tukaramgate police for further investigation. They produced him before the Sixteenth Metropolitan Magistrate court on Wednesday.
With Sudheer admitting that he was guilty, the court awarded him five-day jail term. He was lodged in Chanchalguda prison.
Jewellery recovered
Busting a case of house-breaking by day reported more than two months ago, the Market police on Wednesday recovered gold jewellery weighing half kilo from Mohammed Iqbal Jeelani. He emerged as prime suspect after police analysed video footage of surveillance cameras in Bandimet locality where he broke into a house.
Forty-five-year-old Jeelani hails from Hubli of Karnataka State where he began indulging in thefts and burglaries when he was a minor. His name figured in 35 crimes in Karnataka. He shifted to Gujarat in year 2000.
“There too he was indulging in property crimes. Gujarat police were also on the look out for him,” North zone DCP B. Sumathi said.
Dowry death charge
An army Major Vaibhav Vishal was arrested by the Bollarum police of North zone on Wednesday on charge of driving his wife Sandhya to suicide with the demand for additional dowry.
A radio jockey by profession, Ms. Sandhya ended her life by hanging at her residence on April 18. Her sister Uma lodged a complaint with the police alleging that Vishal had been harassing Sandhya demanding additional dowry.
“According to the complaint, Ms. Sandhya committed suicide unable to bear the harassment,” Begumpet ACP S. Ranga Rao, who investigated the case, said. Since the woman died within seven years of marriage, the police registered a case under Section 304-B (dowry death) of Indian Penal Code.
The Prevention of Atrocities against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act was also invoked as the victim was a Dalit. Having collected evidence in the case, the investigators arrested the Major and presented him before a local court.
