My Daughter's Soul At Peace Now, Says Father Of Hyderabad Vet After All Four Rape Accused Killed In Police Encounter
The four men who were arrested by the Hyderabad Police for the horrific gang rape and murder of a 27-year-old veterinary doctor were shot dead by the cops in an encounter. As per initial reports the accused tried to escape the police custody and the cops opened fire at them in an act of self-defense The encounter took place around 330 am under a bridge on the Bengaluru-Hyderabad national highway near Chattanpalli village.
The four men who were arrested by the Hyderabad Police for the horrific gang rape and murder of a 27-year-old veterinary doctor in the outskirts of the city last week were shot dead by the cops in an encounter.
As per initial reports, the accused tried to escape the police custody and the cops opened fire at them in an act of self-defense. The encounter took place around 3.30 am under a bridge on the Bengaluru-Hyderabad national highway near Chattanpalli village at Shadnagar.
This is the same place where the accused had committed the crime on the night of November 27 and the charred body of the victim was found the next morning. The cops had taken the accused to the crime scene for investigation on Thursday.
Hyderabad: Heavy police presence at the spot where accused in the rape and murder of the woman veterinarian were killed in an encounter earlier today. #Telangana pic.twitter.com/tpIzyBgxdZ
¡ª ANI (@ANI) December 6, 2019
The police were trying to reenact the crime and were questioning them about how they had committed the murder, after raping the veterinarian at Shamshabad. According to the cops, the accused allegedly attacked the cops and tried to run away from the spot forcing them to open fire at them.
All the four accused Mohammad Ali alias Mohammad Arif, Jollu Shiva, Jollu Naveen Kumar, and Chintakunta Chenna Keshavulu were killed on the spot.
Hyderabad: Senior Police officials arrive at the site of the encounter. All four accused in the rape and murder of woman veterinarian in Telangana were killed in an encounter with the police when the accused tried to escape while being taken to the crime spot. https://t.co/TB4R8EuPyr pic.twitter.com/7fuG87MP0m
¡ª ANI (@ANI) December 6, 2019
Reacting to the development, the father of the 27-year-old veterinary doctor who was raped and murdered by the four men said his daughter has got justice now. "It has been 10 days after my daughter died. I express my gratitude towards the police and government for this. My daughter's soul must be at peace now," he said.
Others too welcomed the development
Asha Devi, Nirbhaya's mother on all four accused in rape&murder of woman veterinarian in Telangana killed in encounter: I am extremely happy with this punishment.Police has done a great job & I demand that no action should be taken against the police personnel. pic.twitter.com/frL3sRqcD6
¡ª ANI (@ANI) December 6, 2019
Well done boys- Telagana Police https://t.co/WTU5ZU7Wor
¡ª Shesh Paul Vaid (@spvaid) December 6, 2019
Man behind the operation - Encounter Specialist CP Sajjanar. He previously deal with warangal acid attack encounter and now disha case encounter.
¡ª Ganapathi Varma (@vinayvarma1999) December 6, 2019
We must appreciate his guts , dashing moves. #Hyderabad #hyderabadpolice pic.twitter.com/yF9z1q30HW
This is the best news to wake up to . Wow .
¡ª Nani..?? (@trulyNANI) December 6, 2019
#Disha ni kalchina chotuke thechi maree encounter cheyatam edaithe undo ? thank you #Hyderabad police and CM KCR ?
#RIPDisha#RIPPriyankReddy pic.twitter.com/icf4Jq5iw4
The encounter that happened at a time when there was a growing call for instant justice and mob lynching of the accused has raised some questions about the police version of how things unfolded.
Rekha Sharma, National Commission for Women on #Telangana encounter: We always demanded death penalty for them, and here police is the best judge, I don't know in what circumstances this happened. https://t.co/cCfPbqy3rB pic.twitter.com/mG66un7DBv
¡ª ANI (@ANI) December 6, 2019
Perfect sequence of events suggested bt @konafanclub four days back #Hyderabad pic.twitter.com/gp0htjtT8b
¡ª DaaruBaaz Mehta (@DaaruBaazMehta) December 6, 2019
Rapists deserve nothing less than death but the criminal justice system can not be subverted in favour of extra judicial means.
¡ª Pankhuri Pathak ?????? (@pankhuripathak) December 6, 2019
The system needs reform.
Encounters are an easy way of running away from responsibility & avoiding course correction. #Hyderabad
The Cyberabad police arrested the four accused on November 29, within 36 hours of the crime. They were produced in the Shadnagar court on November 30 and were remanded to 14-day judicial custody the same evening.
On Wednesday, the court had granted a seven-day police custody of the accused. The police took them into custody on Thursday and had been interrogating them since then.
The four men, all lorry workers were accused of gang-raping and murdering the 27-year-old who was returning home after meeting a dermatologist. The victim had parked her two-wheeler near a toll plaza and when she came back she found one of the wheels flattened. The four accused then approached her on the pretext helping and dragged her to an isolated place, sexually abused her and stagnated her. The later dumped the body near the bridge and set in on fire.
Bobins Abraham is the Assistant News Editor at Indiatimes. He has more than twelve years of experience in TV and digital journalism. An avid student of history and geopolitics, he is a conservationist and environmentalist at heart. He writes on environment, sustainability, human-animal conflict and more.
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