IPS officer V C Sajjanar appears before SC appointed probe panel

Hyderabad | Monday | 11th October, 2021

Summary:

Hyderabad, Oct 11 (PTI): Senior IPS officer V C Sajjanar on Monday appeared before the three-member Inquiry Commission, constituted by the Supreme Court to inquire into the incidents leading to the death of four persons accused in the rape and murder of a woman veterinarian in an alleged encounter with police near here on December 6, 2019.

Sajjanar, now the Managing Director of Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC), and the then Cyberabad Police Commissioner were examined for the first time by the Commission, headed by former Supreme Court judge V S Sirpurkar.

The Commission recorded the statements of Sajjanar and he will again appear before it on Tuesday.

The Commission, which has completed the collection of records, has been examining witnesses and accordingly, some police officials, families of the accused, government officials, among others, have deposed before the panel so far at the commission"s office in the Telangana High Court premises here.

The Inquiry Panel"s proceedings are currently going on in a hybrid form (physical and virtual appearence).

On August 3, 2021, the Supreme Court gave another six months to the commission to file final report on the encounter killing of four accused in the case of gang-rape and murder of the young veterinarian.