Hyderabad: A team of forensic experts on Monday conducted a second post-mortem of the bodies of the four accused in the Hyderabad veterinarian’s rape and murder case.
All four accused were killed in an alleged encounter by the police on December 6.
On the direction of the Telangana High Court on Saturday, forensic experts from New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) conducted the autopsy at the government-run Gandhi Hospital here.
Gandhi Hospital Superintendent Shravan Kumar told reporters that the autopsy procedure was videographed as per the court orders.
The videograph and autopsy report will be submitted to the court.
The High Court had ordered the second autopsy after Shravan Kumar personally appeared before the court and informed that the bodies will be totally decomposed in five days.
After the autopsy the bodies will be handed over to their families. The relatives, who were waiting to receive the bodies, said the last rites will be performed in their native district Narayanpur.
The court passed the orders on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by social activists K. Sujaya and others.
Mohammed Arif (26), Jollu Shiva (20), Jollu Naveen (20) and Chintakuntla Chennakeshavulu (20), all accused in the gang rape and murder of a veterinary doctor were allegedly killed by the police near Shadnagar on the outskirts of the city.
The police had claimed that the accused attacked the police party escorting them, snatched their weapons and opened fire and all four were killed in retaliatory fire by the police. (IANS)
