‘Bloody murder! Try killer cops’

The Supreme Courtappointed commission said four gangrape and murder accused including three minors who were killed in a police encounter in Hyderabad were deliberately fired upon with an intent to cause their death The commission recommended that all 10 police officers should be tried for murderThe commissionrsquos report said ldquoIn our considered opinion the accused were deliberately fired upon with an intent to cause their death and with the knowledge that the firing would invariably result in the death of the deceased suspectrdquoNo firing at the policeThe panel called the police version ldquoconcoctedrdquo ldquoit cannot be believed that the deceased suspects might have died due to the indiscriminate firing from the pistols allegedly snatched by them and it has to be held that all the deceased suspects died due to the injuries caused by the bullets fired by the police party It cannot also be believed that the deceased suspects opened fire towards the police partyrdquo LiveLaw cited an excerpt from the reportPolice along with the locals stand near the alleged encounter site File picAFPDuring the hearing on Friday a bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli did not agree to the submissions of senior advocate Shyam Divan that the report be kept in a sealed coverIt said ldquoThis relates to the encounter case There is nothing to keep here The Commission has found someone guiltyrdquo It added ldquoWe have to send the case back to the high court we cannot monitor this case A detailed report is submitted Question is what is the proper action to be taken They have made some recommendationrdquoThree minorsAccording to the report three of the four were minors ldquoWe are of the opinion that at the relevant time Jollu Shiva Jollu Naveen and Chintakunta Chennakeshavulu were minorsrdquo added the report The commission cited lapses in the investigation of the case and said all 10 policemen should be tried for murder ldquoThe different acts committed by each of them were done in furtherance of common intention to kill the deceased suspectsrdquo added the reportV C Sajjanar in the centre was Cyberabad police chief when the alleged encounter killings took place PicPTIThe four accusedmdashMohammed Arif Chintakunta Chennakeshavulu Shiva and Naveenmdashwere arrested in connection with the gangrape and murder of a 27yearold veterinary female doctor in November 2019 Around 630 am on December 6 2019 they were taken to the crime spot for the reconstruction of the scene as part of the investigation Police claimed the accused snatched a pistol and tried to escape They were shot dead near the same highway where the womanrsquos charred body was foundIn August last year the apex court granted an extension to the panel headed by former SC judge V S Sirpurkar to file the final report on the encounter killing of the four accused The top court in December 2019 set up the commission to inquire into the circumstances leading to the encounter and asked to submit the report in six monthsThe other members of the Commission include former Bombay High Court judge Rekha Sondur Baldota and former CBI director D R Karthikeyan The police have claimed that the woman was kidnapped sexually assaulted and later murderedNov 2019When the woman was gang raped and killed