Three held in Saniya’s murder case

Hyderabad, April 13 : The Rajendra Nagar police on Saturday held three people, including a woman, on the charges of murder of 18-year-old Anamtha Ahmed alias Saniya, an event manager.

According to police, on the intervening night of 10/11th April at around 1:00 am one female dead body was found near VIF College on Gandipet Road. The deceased was later identified as Sania, a resident of Masab Tank.

On enquiry police learned that Saniya stopped education in the middle of intermediate. Since two years she has been working in a company by name Mosaic Events and Promotions run by one Sarosh @ Zeeshan of Bandlaguda and Husna Khan of Mehdipatnam was one of the director. The main function of the company was to arrange boys and girls if any event is organized by any agency/company in order to serve the food. The deceased was one of the employees of the company and developed relation with Zeeshan, who already had intimacy with Husna Khan. The said Husna Khan was married and having three children. Her husband is staying in Saudi Arabia.

When Saniya developed close intimacy with Zeeshan, Husna Khan developed jealousy and bore grudge against Saniya and decided to eliminate her 10 days back. She engaged two persons, Malik and Rahan of Ziaguda for the murder.

On April 10 in the evening at about 7 PM, Husna Khan, Mallik and Rahan went to deceased residence in Tata Gold vehicle belonging to Rahan’s father. They picked up Saniya in the presence of her mother informing that they were going to attend an event on business deal. In this connection they filled fuel at Mehdipatnam petrol pump and also purchased petrol in a bottle and then they went to Mandara Hotel and had dinner.

From there, they went to the outskirts of Tolkatta village of Moinabad mandal and identified no man zone and smothered Saniya to death using a cloth. The accused brought the deceased to Gandipet and tried to burn the body by pouring petrol taken in the bottle. In the mean time, police patrolling party reached the scene and put off flames. By that time the accused left scene of offence in the vehicle.

According to police, Husna Khan, killed the deceased by smothering with cloth, while Mallik and Rahan caught hold of deceased legs and head and assisted in killing her. Police also seized the vehicle used for commission of offence.

All the three accused have been arrested and they have confessed of committing the murder, police said. INN