A journalist from a media house was allegedly tied to a pole and beaten by locals after he reportedly threatened to complain to HYDRAA about their unfinished structures within the Ameenpur police station limits in Sangareddy on Saturday. They later handed him over to the police. According to reports, Santosh Naik allegedly took pictures of unfinished structures and claimed that the structures were built on encroached land.
He reportedly tried extorting money by threatening people that he would complain to HYDRAA regarding the same, as per the locals. A video of the incident is being circulated on social media platforms, in which locals allege that the journalist demanded money and threatened them. In a major break in the Rs 175-crore international hawala racket, the Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB) has reportedly found that Rs 124 crore was deposited into the current account of one Mohammed bin Ahmed, a suspected hawala operator, in the SBI Shamsheergunj branch.
Ahmed has reportedly been taken into custody for questioning. He is said to be among the over a dozen hawala operators identified in the scam. The TGCSB took up the investigation after registering a suo motu case after being alerted by the National Crime Records Bureau on the transactions of Rs 175 crore in two months through six current accounts with the bank.
Two of the accounts saw transactions of over Rs 150 crore, sources said. A 21-year-old worker from a construction company died when a chunk of earth fel.
