SC orders judicial probe into encounter killing of Hyderabad rape-murder accused
The three-member probe panel headed by former SC judge VS Sirpurkar will have to complete the investigation and submit a report in six months.
The three-member probe panel headed by former SC judge VS Sirpurkar will have to complete the investigation and submit a report in six months.
Chief Justice SA Bobde said the court had initially asked former Supreme Court judge PV Reddi but he had declined to be involved in this inquiry.
CJI Bobde was speaking at an event in Jodhpur where he came for the inauguration of a new building of the Rajsthan High Court.
In a veiled attack on PM Modi, Gandhi said the reason for the breakdown of our institutional structures is because 'the man who is running this country believes in violence and indiscriminate power'.
Jwala Gutta, a resident of Hyderabad, instead of blindly supporting the encounter had chosen to join the opposite wagon on Friday.
Various human rights groups had made a representation at the office of the Chief Justice, requesting judicial intervention into what they called 'extra-judicial killings' of the four accused.
The team will first visit the encounter spot at Chatanpally, where the police gunned down the accused and then visit the Government hospital where the bodies of the four men have been preserved after autopsy.
Amid aspersions being cast on the alleged encounter, Cyberabad Police Chief VC Sajjanar at a press briefing revealed the details of the early morning incident.
The four accused in the Hyderabad veterinarian rape and murder case got killed in an alleged encounter on Friday morning.
A team of the Investigation Division of the Commission headed by an SSP is expected to leave immediately and submit their report at the earliest.
