Nearly two months after Hyderabad techie Esther Anuhya went missing and was found murdered in Mumbai, city police on Monday claimed to have cracked the case with the arrest of a proclaimed offender, who allegedly made a failed attempt to rape the victim but later burnt her body partially.
Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao's son and Municipal Administration Minister K T Rama Rao said he would 'personally monitor the case'.
The apex human rights body in the country said the encounter was a matter of concern and needed to be probed carefully.
The Cyberabad police, probing the case, also said some print and electronic media also telecast and published documents related to the probe on news channels, papers and social media, which hampered the investigation.
The encounter is an attempt by authorities to distract people from the government's failures to safeguard women's rights, the activists said.
Leaders from different political parties raised the issue of the gruesome murder and rape of a veterinary doctor in Telangana in Parliament on Monday.
It is for the investigating agencies to probe all aspects of the assassination, including a possible Chinese hand, or if the killer was just a disgruntled element who acted on his own and wanted to earn some dark space in history like Nathuram Godse or Lee Harvey Oswald, notes Japan expert Rajaram Panda.
A three-member inquiry commission on the encounter killings of four suspects in a case of gang-rape and murder of a veterinarian (named changed as Disha) in Hyderabad in December 2019 revealed that the firing by the police personnel was deliberate.
'My chants in praise of BJP and RSS stalwarts were a reaction to what MPs like Owaisi did.'
The bench noted that "conflicting versions about the incident demands an inquiry to uncover the true facts".
From fantasy to football, OTT is beaming with all kinds of goodies this week.
The local bar association has resolved not to offer any legal assistance to the accused in the case.
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.
The Ranga Reddy Bar Association have decided not to appear for the four accused in the case.
Union Minister of State for Defence Pallam Raju's maternal aunt Susheela Devi was found dead in mysterious circumstances in her apartment in Hyderabad on Tuesday. Suspecting foul play, the city police have booked a murder case. Hyderabad Police Commissioner A K Khan said that Susheela Devi's jewellery was found missing. Susheela Devi used to live alone. A realtor had visited her at approximately 2 pm today. The police suspect that her murder took place after the realtor left
In the Cyberabad incident, all the four accused were killed at one go in an exchange of fire. Police in both the cases claimed that the suspects 'snatched' their weapons and opened fire at them forcing them to retaliatory action 'in self-defence'.
Preliminary investigations by the police indicated that all the three victims were killed in a similar manner by the killers who assaulted them and smashed their heads with boulders.
The sensational killings came to light when the bodies of two youths, with their heads smashed, were found near Rajendranagar on Hyderabad's outskirts on January 2.
A heated argument broke out between the man and some hotel staff after the former asked for extra curd while having biryani.
'I have no doubt that when she was prevented from meeting Kejriwal, she felt humiliated.'
The four men, all lorry workers, aged between 20 and 24, were arrested on November 29 for allegedly raping and killing the woman by smothering her and later burning her body.
The Hyderabad incident had sparked demands of swift punishment to rape convicts. The news of the 'encounter' killing led to celebrations in some quarters and concern in others.
TV footage showed Prabhakar Reddy pressing the stab wound on his stomach (to stop the bleeding) while sitting in a vehicle.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday said the accused in the Kanhaiya Lal killing case in Udaipur were 'linked' to the Bharatiya Janata Party and should have been 'hanged by now' but the investigation by the National Investigation Agency was not progressing as it should.
A 11-year-old Pakistani Hindu boy has been allegedly raped and murdered at the premises of a club in Sindh province, triggering protests by people demanding justice for the family, a media report said on Sunday.
After battling for her life for almost 40 hours, the 23-year-old woman died following a cardiac arrest on Friday night at the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi.
The suspected serial killers of nine persons, including a woman, allegedly used to lure their victims with liquor and the services of sex workers before smashing their heads with boulders.
Tigress Avni, who is believed to be responsible for the deaths of 13 people in the past two years, was killed in Maharashtra's Yavatmal on Friday as part of an operation.
The list also includes two notorious fugitives -- Sukumara Kurup, never nabbed in connection with a murder and Dr Edadi Omana -- who had given the slip to the investigating agencies, and have remained untraceable for several years.
Police said they suspected it to be a revenge killing as Ramesh was the prime accused in the murder of Mahesh, son of one of the assailants, in December 2017 in Hyderabad.
Louisiana's Republican Governor-elect, Piyush 'Bobby' Jindal, has broken his silence over the murders of the two Indian graduate students on the Louisiana State University campus in Baton Rouge last week, and said he hopes the perpetrators of this horrific crime will be brought to justice soon.
If you thought the Scarlette Keeling murder case in Goa was mysterious, then take a look at the way in which the first phase of the investigation was conducted. This would seem more mysterious to you. The first question that is being asked is why there was a delay in writing to the head of the Forensic Sciences Department asking him not to send the viscera to the FSL in Hyderabad.
The quantum of sentence for the convicted Indian Mujahideen operatives, Aneeq Shafique Sayeed and Mohammed Akbar Ismail, will be announced next Monday.
Cruelty by the husband (or his relatives) accounted for about 40 per cent of these cases. Delhi reported the highest number of cases of crimes against women (12,552) followed by Mumbai with over 5,000 cases.
"Had she called up the police, she could have been saved," Home Minister Ali told ANI.
The official said they would complete the probe in a time-bound manner.
'Every person is a Jatayu, each one of you can be Jatayu, both men and women,' says temple priest behind the group set up to prevent atrocities on women and young girls.
Talking about the brutal killing of Krishnaiah in 1994, G Uma Krishnaiah said her husband was killed for no fault of his.
"The family has made a representation to our officers that women were not allowed to wear 'purdah' and their religious sentiments were hurt by this," Hyderabad Police Commissioner B Prasad Rao told rediff.com when asked about the complaints of Moulana Naseeruddin's wife Tasneem Fatima that about 50 policemen in plainclothes had barged in to her home when no male member.
Journalists from across the country gathered and demanded justice amid call for standing up to "forces" trying to the "muzzle" the voices of dissent.
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