A snooker parlour owner, whose tip-off helped police send a person involved in criminal cases behind bars, was brutally attacked with sticks and knife by the latter and his two associates in old city on Wednesday night.
While the video clip of the attackers going berserk and thrashing the snooker parlour owner with sticks and stabbing on his back with knife went viral, South Zone police caught the three accused on Thursday. Twenty-four-year-old Sabeer Khan was in his chair at the parlour in Dabeerpura when the prime accused Ahmed Hussain and two others barged inside around 11.30 p.m. on Wednesday.
Without any provocation, they began damaging whatever came in their way, lunged at Khan and started beating him with the sticks. As Khan bent down to cover his head, one of them began inflicting injuries on his back with a knife.
Screaming for help, Khan ran for cover but the trio beat him repeatedly before fleeing the place, South zone DCP V. Satyanarayana said on Thursday. Hussain was a history-sheeter of Mirchowk police station but it was closed following High Court orders, the DCP said.
In 2014, Hussain was allegedly involved in a dacoity case. The next year, Hyderabad police arrested him under Preventive Detention Act and lodged him in prison. He came out after a year. Subsequently, he was allegedly involved in a robbery in Banjara Hills police station.
The second accused Massiuddin, who was accused of involvement in a theft case in Banjara Hills, used to threaten the snooker parlour seeking discount in charges for playing the game.
