The Commission has been insisting upon all law enforcing agencies to keep the human rights angle in their view while dealing with persons arrested or in custody.
As mixed reactions pour in over the encounter of all four accused in the Hyderabad gangrape and murder case by the Telangana Police, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has stated that its investigation team will conduct a spot inquiry into the matter. A Press Information Bureau (PIB) release stated that the Commission has been insisting upon all law enforcing agencies to keep the human rights angle in their view while dealing with persons arrested or in custody.
Announcing that it has taken suo motu cognizance of the media reports about the case, the Commission stated that a fact-finding team, headed by a Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) will be sent immediately to the site of the encounter for an on the spot investigation into the matter.
"The Commission is of the opinion that this matter is required to be probed very carefully," the Press Information Bureau (PIB) release stated, "Accordingly, it has asked its Director General (Investigation) to immediately send a team for fact-finding on the spot investigation into the matter. The team of the Investigation Division of the Commission, headed by an SSP, is expected to leave immediately and submit their report, at the earliest."
The release added that NHRC is concerned about the increasing instances of sexual assault on women across the country and has, in this regard, asked for detailed reports from all state governments, police heads, and also from the Union Ministry of Women & Child Development.
All four accused in the Hyderabad gangrape and murder case were killed in an encounter by the Telangana Police in an encounter in Shadnagar in the wee hours of Friday.
It is being said that the four accused tried to snatch weapons from the police officials and attacked them, after which, the police, in self-defence, opened fire on them. Confirming the development, Telangana Police said, ''All four people accused in the rape and murder of woman veterinarian in Telangana have been killed in an encounter with the police.''
They were gunned down at the same spot where the accused had dumped the victim`s body and set it on fire on the night of November 27 after the gang-rape near Shamshabad on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Minutes after the encounter, senior Telangana police officials arrived at the site to take stock of the situation.
The Hyderabad gangrape and murder case had triggered a nationwide protest and renewed demands for capital punishment for the accused in such heinous crimes. The 26-year-old veterinary doctor was smothered, gang-raped and then burnt by four men and her charred body was found the next day on November 28 under a culvert on the Hyderabad-Bengaluru national highway.
According to the Cyberabad Police, the four accused had punctured the rear wheel of her scooter, offered to help her, dragged her to a secluded spot close to a toll plaza and raped her. It said the victim died due to suffocation and the accused later set her body on fire.
The Cyberabad Police had arrested the four accused on November 29 in connection with their involvement in the rape and murder case. All the four accused, who worked as drivers and cleaners, were sent to judicial custody for 14 days by a local court.
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