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Telangana HC Takes Cognizance Of Hyderabad Encounters
After the National Human Rights Commission, the Telangana high court has now taken cognizance of the encounter killings of 4 men accused of raping, murdering and burning the body of a 27-year-old Hyderabad based veterinarian. All the accused were killed in an encounter early Friday morning after the police claimed they attempted to flee.
The advocate-general was summoned and appeared before the court after regular hours, at 8 pm on Friday. The high court has said that the dead bodies of the four men must be preserved for three days, till December 9. The advocate-general informed the court that the post-mortem was being conducted at the Government District Hospital in Mahaboobnagar, under the supervision of the hospital’s superintendent and a forensic team from Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad. The post-mortem is also being video graphed.
The Court directed the video to be handed over to the Principal District Judge of Mahboobnagar in a CD or pen-drive, who will then hand over the same to the Registrar General of the High Court. The matter has been listed again before the Chief Justice of the high court for the morning of December 9.
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