Odisha Police arrests Wanted Gangster Hyder from Telangana

Bureau, Odishabarta

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Police arrested fugitive gangster and murder case convict Sk.Hyder from neighbouring Telangana on Thursday, five days after he escaped from SCB Hospital in Cuttack where he was undergoing treatment.

Commissioner of Police, Bhubaneswar-Cuttack, Soumendra Priyadarshi said Hyder was arrested from Sangareddy district in Telangana with the help of the police from the neighbouring State.

Hyder, serving life imprisonment after being convicted in a murder case, had escaped from SCB Medical College and Hospital on April 10.

“Hyder was under surveillance and when the Cuttack Police became sure about his movements, two special teams were sent to Telangana. They captured him while he was driving a motorcycle at a place in Sangareddy district,” Priyadarshi told Press.

The Cuttack Police got help of the police of Medak town and Hyderabad Police Commissionerate in capturing the gangster, who will be brought to Odisha on Friday and produced before a court.

Asked how Hyder managed to escape from the hospital and cross the State border, Priyadarshi said such details will be known after questioning the gangster and subsequent investigation.

Hyder, who was in Sambalpur jail, was brought to the Cuttack hospital for some medical treatment on March 23 and he escaped on April 10. Six police personnel have been suspended following the incident.

Meanwhile, the police found out during investigation that Hyder had visited the hospital three times in the first three months of this year and every time, a particular police constable was a member of his escort team, sources said. Besides, he was kept in an air-conditioned cabin in the hospital every time.
Hospital Superintendent Prof Lucy Das, however, said, “I was not informed by the department concerned that a murder convict was undergoing treatment in custody.” The hospital authorities had also no idea how the gangster was allotted an air-conditioned cabin, from where he was getting his food and who were visiting him during his stay there.

An associate of Hyder, who regularly visited him in the hospital, is currently being interrogated by the police in custody after he surrendered on Monday, sources said.

Source;dinalipi