His story from a degree student joining Left Wing Extremism to turning a police friend and ultimately getting killed by the latter has more twists and turns than a reel life story.
While as a degree student at Bhongir of Nalgonda, where he was born and brought up, Mohd. Nayeemuddin alias Nayeem, who was killed on Monday at Shadnagar, got attracted to Left Wing Extremism. His father, a driver with the then Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board, died in service.
His brother Alimuddin got father’s job on compassionate ground. But for some reasons, Alimuddin didn’t continue in the job. By then Nayeem already joined Radical Students Union (RSU). He became RSU’s Bhongir town organiser in 1991.
The Nalgonda police arrested him. A ‘tapancha’ and a grenade were recovered from him then.
After coming out on bail, he went underground and joined Alair squad of the then CPI ML People’s War Group of Naxalites which later emerged CPI (Maoists). As member of PWG’s action team, he took part in the plot of killing IPS officer K.S. Vyas while the latter was walking at Lal Bahadur stadium in 1993.
Going by the cases of other Naxalites involved in such offences, his fate should have been different.
“The idea of some police officers that he turn their friend for the strategic reason of countering the LWE (Left Wing Extremism) movement which was at its peak then, changed his life,” an intelligence official said. Since he was familiar with the Naxalite leaders’ whereabouts, their ideas, plans and movements, police officials reportedly used the inputs given by him to effectively counter the LWE movement, be it surrender of Naxalites or their killing in encounters. But Nayeem became a ‘top man’ in the then united Andhra Pradesh after his name cropped up in the gruesome murder of a revolutionary folk singer Belli Lalitha in 1999.
The following year, Nayeem was allegedly involved in another sensational murder of AP Civil Liberties Committee member K. Purushotham at Madhuranagar near S.R. Nagar in Hyderabad. He was arrested in the case but absconded after attending the court.
His name was heard in many cases including that of surrendered naxalites Konapuri Sambashivudu, Konapuri Ramulu, Nalgonda APCLC president Azam Ali and Patlolla Goverdhan Reddy.
