Hours after the Hyderabad police had encountered and shot dead the four accused who were detained with the connection of allegedly gangraping and murdering a 26-year-old female doctor, the Telangana High court, on Friday, issued the order to the state government to preserve the bodies of four men until Monday, with accord to the writ petition filed by several civil rights activists on seeking the court's intervention into the encounter.

By hearing the writ petition which claimed the encounter to be suspicious, the High court ordered the authorities to video record the post-mortem and to disclose the recordings to the Principal District Judge of Mahaboobnagar and in its verdict, the court had directed the government to preserve the bodies of four accused till 8 pm on Monday, December 9th, where the Principal Judge of Mahaboobnagar would be submitting the post-mortem recordings to the Registrar of the Telangana High court by Saturday evening.

In their petitions, the civil activists have raised serious concerns over the reported encounter. By citing that the police had surpassed all the due process by encountering the accused, the activists had claimed the encounter as an absolute violation of rule of law. Underlining the reports from media, the activists had stated that these accused were unarmed during the police custody and they could have been handcuffed while being escorted to the crime scene. The petition reads the police action of transporting the accused on the wee hours to the crime scene has raised more concerns.

However, Cyberabad Police Commissioner V C Sajjanar, while addressing the reporters on Friday, has said that the accused were not handcuffed and further revealed that the accused attempted to evade from the spot by snatching the guns from the police team following which, with the view of retaliating, the police team had shot dead the accused. The reports say that the incident took place between 6 am to 6.30 am on Friday in the same spot where the accused set ablaze the body of the doctor after raping and murdering her.

Similarly, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken the encounter case in its own motion where the commission has said, on Friday, that it would deploy the team headed by the senior police officer to Telangana to probe the encounter and the human rights body has also urged the Telangana police to table the explanation on the encounter.

On November 27th, a 26-year-old female Hyderabad Veterinary doctor was reportedly gang-raped and brutally murdered by these four accused who belong to Narayanpet district. Following their crime, they had allegedly carried the body and set ablaze at Chatanpally village, a few kilometers away from the place where she was killed. The police department had detained the accused in the following days where on Wednesday, the Shadnagar court had ordered the police to remand the accused under the police custody for seven days.

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