12 men buy swords, knives online, post pictures on social media; detained

Hyderabad Police on Monday detained twelve men for illegally purchasing deadly weapons such as swords, daggers online and posting pictures on social media.

10 swords, two daggers and a long knife was seized from the accused following raids in various locations.

The accused have been identified as Sood Aman Singh, Tusam Kunal Singh, Sudheer Singh, Mohammed Salman, Mohammed Mujeeb, Musthafa Hussain, Bisent Shashikanth Singh, Mohammed Yaseen Ahamed, Mohammed Rawoof, Salman Khan, Mohammed Sirajuddin and Mohammed Sohail.

As per the reports, the accused bought these deadly weapons via online portal Snapdeal and posted images with the weapons on social media platforms - Facebook and WhatsApp ‘to cause panic in the public’.

Speaking at the press conference, Deputy Commissioner P Radhakishan Rao appealed the citizens not to purchase prohibited sharp edge deadly arms such as daggers, swords, knives, etc nor take photos with the prohibited arms and post on social media instead report those in violation of the Arms Act.

He even advised online portals - Snapdeal, Amazon and Flipkart to not sell or deliver such prohibited arms to buyers.