Hyderabad 'encounter': NHRC begins probe amid raging debate on police action

Hyderabad | Sunday | 8th December, 2019

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A day after the pre-dawn 'encounter', Telangana police said that the four accused killed by it in "retaliatory firing" have been booked for "attacking" the cops who had accompanied them. We will not bury the bodies till then," said Renuka, the pregnant wife of Chennakeshavulu who was killed by the police in the alleged encounter on Friday. The team from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), including a forensic medicine expert, began its probe by examining the bodies. Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Saturday hit out at those hailing the Telangana encounter, saying the "savage Taliban-style justice" will make courts irrelevant. "To the cheerleaders of: Telangana Encounter..