TS encounter: NHRC team reaches Hyd, to visit encounter site

Hyderabad | Saturday | 7th December, 2019

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A+ A-Hyderabad: A team of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) arrived here on Saturday a day after all the four accused in the rape and murder of a woman veterinary doctor in Telangana were killed in a police encounter. The NHRC team will first visit the encounter site at Chatanpally village to conduct an inquiry where the encounter took place on Friday and then go to Mahbubnagar Government hospital where the bodies of the four accused are kept. On Friday, the NHRC has asked its Director General (Investigation) to send a team for fact-finding on the spot investigation into the matter. Taking suo motu cognisance of the killing of the four accused, the NHRC said that this matter is required to be probed very carefully. “Death of four persons in an alleged encounter with the police personnel when they were in their custody, is a matter of concern for the commission,” the Commission said..