New Delhi, Dec 6
National Commission for Women Chairperson Rekha Sharma has said that the police's 'encounter killing' of the accused in the Hyderabad rape case is "good".

While talking to IANS Sharma said that "It is a good decision on the part of the police," adding "But it is subject to investigation because I wanted that the culprits should have been punished as per the legal process but what police did at that time looking at the circumstances is a good decision".

The four accused in the Hyderabad veterinarian's gang rape and murder case were killed in an 'encounter' early on Friday when they tried to escape as police took them for recreation of the crime scene at the site where the incident occurred.

Hyd'bad rape accused 'rightly' shot dead: Harana minister

Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij on Friday justified the killing in an alleged 'encounter' of all four accused in the brutal gang rape and murder of a young veterinarian in Hyderabad.

"Have the Hyderabad gang-rape accused been shot dead?" he tweeted in Hindi.

"Happened (encounter), how it happened but it was 'rightly okayed'," Vij added.

The accused were killed in the early hours of Friday when they allegedly snatched weapons from the police and tried to escape from Chatanpally near Shadnagar, about 50 kms from Hyderabad.

Police sources said they were gunned down at the same spot where the accused had dumped the victim's body and set it afire on the night of November 27 after the gang rape near Shamshabad on the outskirts of Hyderabad.

The accused were taken to the spot by the Cyberabad police for reconstruction of the crime scene as part of the investigations.

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