Beware of pseudo police gangs

HYDERABAD: City police have sounded an alert about ‘Irani’ gangs from Karnataka striking at will in the city. These gangs specialise in duping people by posing as pseudo-cops. Police said they
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HYDERABAD: City police have sounded an alert about ‘Irani’ gangs from Karnataka striking at will in the city. These gangs specialise in duping people by posing as pseudo-cops. Police said they are involved in 84 such offences this year.

Police have decided to educate people about gang members, their modus operandi and ways to avoid falling prey. Police commissioner AK Khan said even educated people like software engineers and advocates were falling prey to them. Their operations were not restricted to the city but also in Cyberabad police limits. They had even extended to other cities like Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam and Guntur, Khan said.

Khan added, “We have information these pseudo-police gangs hail fom an Iranian settlement on outskirts of Bengaluru.” They added that there were 130 such offenders. “We have got photos of 40 of them and would prepare hoardings and pamphlets about them, alerting people about how they operate,” Khan said.

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