Five nabbed for murder

HYDERABAD: A history-sheeter and four of his associates were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the murder of a pickpocket.The pickpocket, Salam, was murdered by the accused over a dispute between two gangs. The arrested include Mohd Ilyas, a history-sheeter of Chandrayangutta police and his associates, Rasheed Bin Abdullah, Sayed Zulfikar Hussain alias Nadeem, Md Naveed and Thakur Subash Singh.According to police, Ilyas and others approached Naveed, who earlier worked with one of the gangs called Fayaz gang. The arrested wanted to pull the Fayaz gang members onto their side.Naveed took them to Salam, who gave them the information about the other gang. However, the gang planned to kill him as they suspected that he was passing on information about them to Fayaz.They allegedly confined Salam in a room to get out information about Fayaz gang from him. Later, they took him near Mohammed Nagar railway tracks, attacked him with daggers and a baseball bat, leading to his death.