Hyderabad: Even as normalcy was returning to the violence-hit Old City, miscreants again tried to create trouble by setting ablaze six fourwheelers in the surrounding areas of Charminar in the early hours of Monday.
At about 3.30 am, five miscreants, riding on two bikes, started setting ablaze fourwheelers parked on the streets in Ghansi Bazar, Golla Galli and Tagari Ka Naka areas near Charminar.
The miscreants set ablaze a Honda City (AP 12 J 1890), Scorpio (AP 12 G 1800) vehicles belonging to Satya Prakash Agarwal, his brother Kiran at Tagari Ka Naka, and then they torched a Honda Brio and Honda City belonging to Subodh Agarwal at Ghansi Bazar. Immediately, they went to Golla Galli and set ablaze a Maruti Swift (AP 12 L 8892) owned by Baglekar Sham Kumar and a Ford Ikon (AP 10 AM 8061) owned by Sainath. Among the vehicles torched, Swift was completely gutted, while other vehicles suffered partial damage, the Charminar police said. Among the victims, except Sham, all others are into textile, steel and jewellery business. Sham is a student, police said.
As the flames engulfed the cars, their owners quickly came out of the houses and doused them. Traffic and surveillance CCTV cameras at Ghansi Bazar captured the images of five miscreants travelling on two separate bikes committing the offence.
“In the video, it is clearly visible that the pillion rider getting off the bike, sprinkling inflammable material on the four-wheelers, which he was carrying in a pouchlike thing, and then lighting it up with a match stick. All the vehicles were set ablaze in less than five minutes,” a Charminar police officer said.
With the help of the video, police are trying to zero in on the offenders. All the victims belong to a particular community and some of them reportedly have close ties with certain political parties. Police have booked a case under section 435 (Mischief by fire) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and launched investigation.
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