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| Supreme Court orders 3-member judicial inquiry into Hyderabad encounter | | | New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a judicial inquiry into the Hyderabad encounter, where four men, accused of allegedly raping and murdering a city veterinarian, were killed.
The top court said that there will be a three-member team to probe the case and no other court or authority shall inquire into this matter until further orders of the apex court. The panel will be headed by former Supreme Court judge VS Sirpurkar and the two others members will be former Bombay High Court judge Rekha Baldota and former CBI chief B Kartikeyan.
The panel has been given six months to complete the investigation.
"We are of the considered view that an inquiry commission needs to be constituted. The inquiry to be completed in six months," the SC bench, headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, said on Thursday.
"There must be unbiased inquiry of the encounter of the four accused," the top court further said.
The bench was hearing two petitions seeking registration of FIR against cops and an independent probe into the matter.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court also issued a notice on the petition to restrain media from publishing proceedings before the commission.
The accused were killed in a police encounter, a week after the rape case was reported later in November. The veterinary doctor was allegedly raped and charred to death. Her body was dumped by the accused under a bridge on the outskirts of Hyderabad. |
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