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.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.“The licensed rifle belongs to one of the arrested accused, Syed Hussain, businessman from Malakpet. 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.Apart from the rifle and ammunition, police also seized three night-vision scopes, five cell phones, the original arms licence and the Scorpio vehicle.Police said that Hussain runs a steel factory in Jalpally. 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.
