Law has done its duty: Telangana top cop

December 06, 2019 15:38

Telangana Police briefs the media on today's encounter of the four men accused in the rape and murder of a vet.

Cyberabad CP VC Sajjanar said law has done its duty and illustrated how the encounter took place:

"On 4 and 5 December, we interrogated the accused after taking the accused into police custody. Today, the police brought the accused to the crime spot as part of investigation. The accused were not handcuffed.

"Two of the accused attacked the police with sticks and then snatched the weapons from us and started firing on the police. The police warned them and asked them to surrender but they continued to fire. Officers maintained restrained and warned them, but they continued to fire at us, We retaliated and opened fire and they were killed in the encounter.

"During the encounter, two policemen have been injured with head injuries and they have been shifted to the local hospital. There were 10 officers at the encounter site.

"The encounter lasted 45 minutes from 5:30 to 6:15 am. We have recovered the victim's cell phone and power banks from the spot. We have also seized two weapons from the accused persons. The body of accused have been shifted to local govt hospital for postmortem."

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