{"id":87211,"date":"2019-12-08T01:38:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T20:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=87211"},"modified":"2019-12-08T01:38:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T20:08:33","slug":"nhrc-team-begins-probe-into-police-encounter-in-rape-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/12\/08\/nhrc-team-begins-probe-into-police-encounter-in-rape-case\/","title":{"rendered":"NHRC team begins probe into police encounter in rape case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>HYDERABAD, Dec 7:<\/strong> A seven-member National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) committee on Saturday began its inquiry into the alleged police encounter in which all four accused in the rape and murder of a young veterinarian were killed, visiting the mortuary at a state-run hospital in Mahabubnagar district of Telangana, where their bodies have been kept after postmortem.<br \/>\nThe team, including a forensic medicine expert, examined the bodies and also visited Chattanpalli village, about 50 kms from here, the spot where the charred remains of the woman were found beneath a culvert on 28 November, and also the encounter site nearby.<br \/>\nThe investigative committee of the NHRC came here to &#8220;note down the incident,&#8221; and visited the mortuary and the scene of offence, DCP (Shamshabad Zone) N Prakash Reddy told reporters.<br \/>\n&#8220;They visited the scene of the crime and are in the process of investigation,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nAn expert who is part of the team that conducted the postmortem said the NHRC team checked whether the postmortem was conducted as per protocol or not, among other things.<br \/>\nHe said the postmortem report would be prepared in two days.<br \/>\nThe NHRC took cognizance of the encounter killings of the four accused in the case and ordered a probe on Friday.<br \/>\nThe apex human rights body in the country had said the encounter was a matter of concern and needed to be investigated carefully.<br \/>\n&#8220;The commission is of the opinion that this matter is required to be probed very carefully. Accordingly, it has asked its director general (investigation) to immediately send a team for a fact-finding, on-the-spot investigation into the matter,&#8221; the NHRC said.<br \/>\nThe postmortem of the four accused was done at the government district hospital in Mahabubnagar district and videographed.<br \/>\nThe Telangana High Court had on Friday directed the state government to preserve the bodies of the four accused till 8 pm on 9 December.<br \/>\nAll the four accused were shot dead by police on Friday during a predawn exchange of fire near Hyderabad.<br \/>\nThe four were arrested on 29 November for allegedly raping and killing the 25-year-old woman by smothering her and later torching the body after dumping it under the culvert. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD, Dec 7: A seven-member National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) committee on Saturday began its inquiry into the alleged police encounter in which all four accused in the rape and murder of a young veterinarian were killed, visiting the mortuary at a state-run hospital in Mahabubnagar district of Telangana, where their bodies have been kept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}