A police constable was on Friday shot dead by unidentified assailants at Shah-Ali Banda area in old city of Hyderabad, where security had been beefed up since early this month in the wake of a terror alert.
The motorcycle-borne assailants, believed to be two or three in number, fired at Ramesh Kumar at a police picket, killing the 26-year-old constable on the spot at around 4.30 PM, police said. He belonged to the 11th battalion of the state police.
"We are examining the witnesses. It seems one or two rounds were fired at him. Who did it and in what context, we are examining it," Hyderabad Police Commissioner A K Khan said.
The old city area had witnessed communal clashes which left three persons dead in March end and curfew had been imposed for nearly a fortnight. Khan, however, said, "It is not correct to link this particular incident with previous such incidents. It is an unfortunate incident. "After the recent communal clashes, we have been operating pickets and the city police is in full alert," he said.
Following the Bangalore blasts last month, a terror alert had been sounded in Hyderabad in the wake of intelligence inputs. Security had been beefed ahead of the second anniversary of the Mecca Masjid blast that had left five people dead as on May 18 last year terror suspect Viqaruddin had allegedly shot dead a police constable in Falaknuma area. Police have intensified frisking in the area.
"Our teams with weapons are moving in the area," he said, adding that additional forces have been deployed. PTI
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