Hyderabad / He came home at 1:00 am, said he killed someone: Mom of Hyd gangrape accused

“My son, Mohammad, came home on the morning of 29 November, around one in the morning. He looked petrified and kept telling us he killed someone. He said, ‘I was taking my lorry from one side and on the opposite side, a bike was coming with a woman sitting on it. I hit her and I killed her.’

That’s what Molanbi, mother of “Accused-1” in the Hyderabad vet’s rape-murder case, told The Quint from a small one-room home in Jakkular village in Telangana's Narayanpet district.

Hours later, around 3 am in the morning, Mohammad was picked up by six policemen.

What Was the Role of ‘Accused-1' in the Crime?

A day before he was picked up, on the intervening night of 27 and 28 November, a government veterinary doctor in Hyderabad was raped and murdered before being suffocated to death. The police arrested the four accused on 29 November, including Mohammad, known as “Accused-1” (A-1).

25-year-old Mohammad, alias Areef, is a lorry driver based out of Jakkular village in Narayanpet ditrict. He had spent his whole life in the village.

While Mohammad told his mother that he had killed the woman in an accident, the police suspect otherwise.

According to the police, Mohammad is the one who went upto the Hyderabad rape-murder victim, Poornima*, and told her that her tire was punctured. He is the one who insisted that she will not be able to ride at all and that she should allow him to help her fix the puncture.

This was after one of his accomplices, “Accused-2” Jollu Shiva, had punctured the tires as part of the conspiracy.

It was also Mohammad, along with “Accused-3,” Jollu Naveen, and “Accused-4” Chintakunta Chennakeshavulu, who forcibly took her to a compound nearby. It is alleged that all four all took turns to rape her. It was Mohammad, according to the police investigation, who closed her mouth and nose till she suffocated and died.