Amid a raging debate on the justice delivery system in India over recent incidents of rapes in Hyderabad and Unnao, CJI SA Bobde said the criminal justice system must reconsider its position and attitude but warned that justice itself should never take the form of revenge. “I believe justice loses its character when it becomes […]

On Friday, Twitter remained sharply divided over the “encounter” of those accused in the Hyderabad rape and murder case. On Friday, several hashtags around the encounter dominated online discourse, with #Encounter (222K) and #Hyderabadpolice (141K) being the top trends. Appreciation and criticism of Hyderabad police cut across political lines.

The Unnao rape survivor’s father as well as the people in her village on Friday hailed the Hyderabad police action in which all four accused in the veterinarian’s rape and murder were shot in a pre-dawn encounter.

“All the accused people have been arrested. The case will be taken to a fast-track court, and punishment will be given,” he said in a statement issued. The rape victim, airlifted to the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi after she was set ablaze allegedly by five persons, died on Friday night.

The killings occurred at Chattanpally village near Shadnagar, a stone’s throw from where the suspects were alleged to have set the woman’s body on fire after killing her. Police had taken the accused to the spot to recover the veterinarian’s mobile phone and accessories.

Vishwanath Chennappa Sajjanar was superintendent of police of Warangal district then. Eleven years later, four men – Mohammed Areef, Shiva, Naveen and Chennakesavulu – accused of gang-raping a veterinarian and murdering her near Shamshabad, met the same fate. The area in Shamshabad comes under Cyberabad police commissionerate limits, which Sajjanar heads now.

The rape victim from Unnao, airlifted to Delhi and admitted to the Safdarjung Hospital here after she was set on fire allegedly by five persons, died on Friday night, hospital sources said.

The Telangana high court on Friday directed the state government to preserve the bodies of the four accused in the Hyderabad rape and murder case till 6pm on December 9. The court also asked the government to video-graph their post-mortem examination and submit the video to the district judge in Mahabubnagar.

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