A HARDCORE terrorist identified as Vikar, who had become a puzzle for Hyderabad police has been finally caught on Wednesday evening. Along with him the police have also arrested his five followers named Suleman, Jakir, Hanif, Riyaz and Sayeed. The police have recovered three shot guns, 35 bullets, four pistol magazines and two knives besides CDs, pen drives, four bikes and two fake media identification cards.
Vikar had been evading arrest for the last one and half year and had become a headache for the police. He allegedly shot an APSP Constable on 14th may 2010 at Shalibanda of city area and earlier he had shot a home guard and also injured a head constable while being captured by police.
As per the police, Vikar hails from old Malakpet of Hyderabad and worked in DJS (Dars-Jihad-O-Shahadat) and later came out and started his own association called TGI (Teharik-Galfa-E-Islam). A Unani doctor, who came from Ahmadabad called Hanif has helped Vikar by giving him shelter.For expanding their organization, Vikar and Suleman carried out thefts and dacoitiess in Hyderabad particularly in E-seva centers and ATMs. In the year 2007, both of them burgled the HSBC bank in Ahmadabad.Vikar came back to Hyderabad in 2007 and since than, he along with Suleman continued to stay with false name. The counter intelligence police arrested him in Faluknama firing case and handed over to Octopus Police.