The sleuths of the Hyderabad Narcotic Enforcement Wing apprehended a foreign national from Sudan, whose visa got expired in 2018. 27-year-old Mohamed Mahmoud Elawad from Sudan was deported after he was found to be living illegally in Hyderabad.


After preliminary investigation, it was revealed that Mahmoud Elawad has come to India in 2015 on student visa. His visa got expired in 2018 and the immigration officials found that Elawad didn't return to Sudan or haven't extended the visa. According to the narcotics department officials, he was suspiciously moving around with the drug peddlers in the city.


Upon credible information, Elawad was apprehended in Zaheera Nagar of Banjara Hills in Hyderabad and deported to his native country after following due process of FRRO Hyderabad.


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As reported earlier, the Commissioner’s Task Force (west) team and the Jubilee Hills police seized Rs 2.49 crore of unaccounted money on Saturday. As a result of a tip, the Task Force team and the Jubilee Hills police apprehended three accused. The accused were identified as Sudhir Kumar Ishwarlal Patel, Ashok Singh and Botchu Ram, who lived in Begum Bazaar on Jubilee Hills Road No 75. Police found cash worth Rs 2.49 crore in a bag.


"On questioning, the duo told us that they work for Lalith, a hawala operator from Begum Bazaar and on his instructions they came to Jubilee Hills and took the money from Botchu Ram, manager at Boyance Infrastructure, Bengaluru,” ACP Banjara Hills, M Sudharshan said as quoted by Telangana Today.


Ram admitted to the police that he had supplied the money at the request of Pola Satyanarayana, currently residing in Delhi. Ram had acquired the funds at Jubilee Hills Road 75 Filmnagar from an unidentified source, police said.