Police officers shot and killed four suspects in the alleged rape and murder of a young veterinarian in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, a startling turn in a case that had triggered a nationwide furor.
The four men were in police custody when they were killed early Friday. A senior police official told reporters that as part of the investigation, officers had taken the suspects to the spot where the victim’s body was found burned. He said two of the men grabbed officers’ weapons while the two others attacked officers with sticks and stones.
Prakash Reddy, a deputy police commissioner in Hyderabad, said the four were killed in “crossfire.”
The deaths sparked praise in some quarters in a country that has grappled with gruesome crimes against women and girls. But activists and lawyers said the shootings bore the hallmarks of extrajudicial killings.
Source The Washington Post
