2020 Delhi riots case: Moosa, accused in IB officer murder, held in Hyderabad

A Delhi police team arrived in Hyderabad and arrested Muntazim alias Moosa (31), the main accused in the murder case of Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma. The Delhi Police have been on the hunt since February 2020 to arrest Moosa who was finally apprehended from his rented house at Gayatrinagar in Meerpet area in Hyderabad on Monday.

Hyderabad (Telangana):A Delhi police team arrived here and arrested Muntazim alias Moosa (31), the main accused in the murder case of Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma. The IB officer's killing created a sensation at the time of the 2020 riots in Delhi. The Delhi police, who have been on the hunt since February 2020, arrested the accused at a location in Gayatrinagar in the Meerpet area in Hyderabad on Monday.

According to police, Moosa came to Hyderabad and stayed in a rented house at Gayatrinagar and was selling goats locally. Already, 10 people have been arrested in Ankit Sharma's murder case. A reward of Rs 50,000 was announced on Moosa, who has been on the run. His wife works in a beauty parlour in Vijayawada and makes visits to Hyderabad once a week.

Mumtazim aka Moosa, who hails from Chandbagh in Delhi, earlier worked as a private employee locally. He was one of the accused in the case in which IB officer Ankit Sharma was brutally murdered in a mob attack near Chandbagh Puliya during the February 25, 2020 riots in Northeast Delhi. The body was dumped in a nearby sewer.

Post-mortem revealed that Ankit Sharma was stabbed 52 times with a sharp knife. Taking the case as a challenge, the police investigated and found that Moosa was among the group that was responsible for the brutal murder. Following a series of arrests, in this case, Moosa escaped from Delhi and arrived to live in a secret location in Hyderabad.