Dreaded gangster Md. Abdul Samad aka Munna Bhai and 16 of his accomplices were found guilty of three cases of dacoity and murder on the Chennai-Kolkata highway in a Prakasam district court on Tuesday.
They were also found guilty in the fourth case relating to the possession of a 9mm carbine machine gun under the Indian Arms Act of VIII. Judge for Additional Districts and Sessions and Family Court Judge G. Manohar Reddy.
The judge adjourned the cases to May 20 to announce the sentence.
The judge upheld Prosecutor S. Sivaramakrishna Prasad’s allegation that the defendant murdered six truck drivers and cleaners, Ramar Shekar and Perumal Subramanium from Tamil Nadu, G. Syambabu and G. Vinod Kumar from Andhra Pradesh and Bhushan Yadav and Chandan Kumar Mehatho from removed Bihar and iron bar loads on the Chennai-Kolkota highway in Prakasam and dumped it to scrap dealers in 2008.
Munna Bhai and his accomplices Sk Riyas, Syed Hidayuthulla, Md. Jamaluddin, Batala Salamon, Y. Chinna Veeraswamy, G. Bhanu Prakash, Rachamala Sampath, G. Sreedhar, Sk. Hafeez, a Gangadhar Rao, Sk.Kamal Saheb, Sk. Rahamuthulla, Sk. Dada Peer, Sk Irfan, and Sk Rafi have been indicted under various sections of the IPC and 25 (2) (1) of the Indian Arms Act. Lengthy investigations by police officer T. Shankar Reddy and senior police officers Y.Srinivasa Rao aka Vasu and Srinivasa Rao led to the breakthrough in the cases.
Three other for profit murders are at different stages in the trial.