NHRC begins probe into H’bad killings
   Date :08-Dec-2019

NHRC begins probe into Hb
 
HYDERABAD :
 
A SEVEN-MEMBER NHRC team on Saturday visited the site where the men arrested on charge of gangrape-murder of a veterinarian were killed in an alleged encounter, while Telangana Police said that the four accused have been booked for “attacking” the cops who had accompanied them. The team from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) visited Chattanpalli village, about 50 kms from here, where the alleged encounter took place.
 
A short distance away the victim’s charred body was found after she was allegedly gang-raped, smothered and set afire on the night of November 27. Officials said the team examined the bodies of the accused kept at Government hospital at Mahabubnagar after the post-mortem was conducted and videographed. The apex human rights body in the country had taken cognisance of the encounter killings, saying it was a matter of concern and needed to be investigated 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,” it had said. The High Court had also directed that the video of the post-mortem be handed over to the Registrar General of the High Court. Even as the NHRC started its fact-finding probe, police said they registered a case on Friday against the four accused in the rape-murder case under IPC sections 307 (attempt to murder) and 176 (omission to give notice or information to public servant by person legally bound to give it) and relevant sections of the Indian Arms Act.