By Our Correspondent
BHUBAESWAR/CUTTACK: “Excellent work done by Commissionarate Police under leadership of CP SK Priyadarshi and DCP Cuttack Prateek G Singh in arresting fugitive convict Hyder from Hyderabad today,” DGP, Odisha tweeted @DGPOdisha. In another tweet, DGP Abhay thanked Hyderabad Police for their timely support and cooperation. “Many thanks to Hyderabad Police,” DGP, Odisha tweeted @DGPOdisha.
Earlier, Absconding gangster Sk Hyder was nabbed by the Commissionerate Police with the help of the Telangana Police. Commissioner of Police Priyadarshi informed Hyder was arrested from a place near Sangareddy district in Telangana. He further stated following Hyder’s escape from SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack on April 10, the Commissionerate Police had been keeping him under surveillance. “When the Cuttack Police became sure about Hyder’s movements, two special teams of police were sent to Telangana state. While driving a motorcycle in a place near Sangareddy district, Hyder was captured by the Cuttack Police with the help of Medak Police and Hyderabad Police Commissionerate,” informed Priyadarshi.
The gangster will be brought to Odisha on Friday and produced in the court.“The Hyderabad City Commissioner’s task force have caught the fugitive and absconding notorious criminal Shaikh Hyder aged 60 years . He is a murder accused of Rashmi Mohapatra . He had abducted a marble trader and demanded Rs 2 crore . Later had escaped from Orissa police custody. He was absconding from a week from Bhubaneswar,” said CP of Hyderabad, Anjani Kumar.
Hyder who had been serving life term at the Sambalpur Circle Jail in a murder case, was admitted to the surgery department of SCB Hospital on March 23, 2021 for treatment. He was kept at cabin no. 5 of the surgery department under police custody.However, the gangster managed to give a slip to the police on April 10 afternoon.
