The seized rifle and ammunition
Acting on a specific alert, police intercepted a Scorpio near the Malakpet Race Course and found a licensed .30-06 rifle along with 12 spent cartridges and eight live rounds. On Oct 18, Hussain along with his friends, Syed Omar and Mohammed Hameed, businessmen from Malakpet, went to a forest near Chimmanchod village in Kalaburagi district of Karnataka to hunt wild animals. They fired 12 rounds but could not hunt any animals,” Malakpet inspector K Venkat Reddy said.
Police said that Hussain runs a steel factory in Jalpally. Hyderabad: Malakpet police along with the Task Force sleuths have arrested three businessmen who have returned from a hunting trip in Karnataka and seized a licensed rifle along with ammunition from their possession. “The licensed rifle belongs to one of the arrested accused, Syed Hussain , businessman from Malakpet. Apart from the rifle and ammunition, police also seized three night-vision scopes, five cell phones, the original arms licence and the Scorpio vehicle. A case was booked against the accused under the Arms Act at Malakpet PS.
The accused were produced before the magistrate and they were granted bail on Monday night, police said.