A committee appointed by Supreme Court to probe the death of four men, accused in the 2019 rape and murder of a veterinarian has stated that the cops “deliberately fired upon with in an int🦄ent to cause their death”.
The report has also said it believes the firing on the accused was done with kno🐲wledge that it 💦would invariably result in death.
Here is everything about the case:
It ⛎was in November 2019 that a shocking incident happened near a desolate toll plaza at Tondupally in Shamshabad in Hyderabad’s Telangana.
A 26-year-old veterinary doctor was tricked by four people near the toll. The four accused had claimed that her scoot♌er had a flat tyre and they had offered to help her.
The woman was then raped and later strangulate near their parked truck some meters away from the toll. Later, th༺e accused had taken her body taken t🌌o Shadnagar and burnt the body at an underpass on Hyderabad-Bangalore highway.
The distressing incident shook the entire nation and was reminiscent of horrific Nirbhaya rape and murder case.
Incident
Later, the police had said that the accused had keenly▨ noticed the victim's routine of parking her scooter at the plaza before taking a cab. On the day of the incident, the four accused had trapped her.
The 🌺victim’s body was found the next day, while the police had later arrested the four suspects—Mohammed Areef, Ch Chennakeshavulu, J Shiva and J Naveen.
Uproar at the incident
There was uproar both within the state and across the country about the incident. The state’s police faced a flak for the delay in registering 🌟of FIR in the case.
The gruesome incident had ꦕreverberated in the Parliament too, while cries for stern punishment continu𝐆ed to grew shriller.
Death of accused
I🍃n December 2019, the four accused were killed 𒉰by police near the spot where the victim’s body was found.
The local Cyberabad commissioner VC Sa🌄jjanar had claimed that the police had taken the four men for a crime scene reconstruction when they were attacked, forcing the police to open fire.
Jubilation, protests and SC probe
The incident resulted in massive jubilation in several parts of the country. However, there were also protests that raised questions about the police’s version in▨to the killing of the four accused.
♓This led to several petitions being filed in the high court, the National Human Rights Commission forming a team, and the state setting up a special investigation t🐼eam.
Finally, the Supreme Court appointed a three-member judicial panel to 📖probe the encounter.
The panel submitted its report on Friday, which ꦗhas said that the killings were i♌ntentional.
