Hyderabad: Police Cconstable Syed Abdul Qadeer, who spent more than 25 years in prison for killing his superior officer while on duty, died on Friday at his home.
Abdul Qadeer made headlines when he shot dead Assistant Commissioner of police N. Sattaiah at Chhatrinaka Police station, in the old city of Hyderabad, on December 8, 1990.
The incident had occurred during the horrendous and worst ever communal riots in Hyderabad, in which more than two hundred people died.
Abdul Qadeer, who had surrendered after shooting the ACP alleged that his superior was selectively targeting a particular community in dealing with the violence.
“I could not bear this and shot him”, he told the investigators.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment and even after spending 14 years in jail the successive governments refused to commute his sentence and release him. Whenever his petition for release came up Sattaiah’s family as well as police officials opposed it. However he was released on parole several times on the representation of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen legislators as he was suffering from many ailments.
His leg was also amputed due to diabetes.
Finally in March 2016 the TRS government released him from jail after he had completed 25 years and three months in jail.
He was unwell for the last few weeks and died on Friday morning. Abdul Qadeer is survived by his wife and three children. Funeral prayers were performed at Makkah Masjid and he was buried in an old city cemetery.
