Five remanded after Masab Tank police alter a terrace death to alleged BNS 108 abetment.

The fall was from a seventh-floor terrace. The case was altered to alleged abetment. Five men are in remand — still on allegation.

On Friday, 21 August 2026, Hyderabad Police arrested five people after altering the Masab Tank matter to Section 108 read with Section 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita — alleged abetment to suicide. Asif Nagar Additional Commissioner of Police K. Srinivasu is the officer named on the public lock. Altered is the police verb. Convicted is not. Section 108 and Section 3(5) stay as the BNS pair on the card; this desk will not invent an older IPC section for the same facts.

The deceased is Mir Sofiyan Ali, also known as Adil, age 24, a private employee from the Charminar / NAB Chowk area. His father complained on 20 August after the son was admitted to CARE Hospital, Nampally, then shifted to Osmania General Hospital. He died around noon on 20 August while under treatment. The fall, on the police narrative, was in the early hours of 20 August from the seventh-floor terrace of Marwa Liberty, an apartment at First Lancer, Masab Tank. Admission, shift and death under treatment are the hospital sequence on the card. Cause settled by a court is not. This desk will not invent a treating doctor’s name or an autopsy result that is not on the lock.

Police narrative of the dispute runs through a damaged Royal Enfield given about four months earlier. The accused, on that telling, allegedly pressed for full repair or money. A friend named Sharukh stayed downstairs. Every sentence in that dispute paragraph is police allegation. This desk will not treat it as a trial finding, and will not invent a repair bill amount or a second vehicle.

The five arrested, as named on the primary lock this desk follows, are Mohammed Hanzala Pasha alias Sofiyan; Mohammed Isaq Uddin; Musthafa Khan alias Furquan; Mohd Nawaaz; and MD Imran Khan. Other desks vary spellings — Hanzala or Hamzala; Isaq or Ishaq; Furquan or Furqan. This desk will keep the primary spellings and note the variants. All five were produced for judicial remand. Investigation is continuing. Remand is custody. It is not a conviction. No sixth name sits on the opened cards.

Masab Tank and First Lancer are the place lines. Marwa Liberty is the apartment name on the lock. Asif Nagar is the ACP division. Charminar / NAB Chowk is the deceased’s area line.

What is not here is a conviction, a settled motive beyond the police bike-repair narrative, an autopsy finding, or a sixth named accused. What is here is a 20 August seventh-floor fall, death around noon under treatment after CARE and Osmania, a father’s complaint, a Friday alteration to alleged abetment under Section 108 read with 3(5) BNS, five named arrests with spelling variants labelled, judicial remand, and ACP K. Srinivasu on the lock.

Until a court writes, abetment is allegation. The terrace railing is the public picture. The verdict is not yet written.