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Hyderabad Police claimed on Tuesday that two of the four accused involved in the rape and murder of the Veterinary Doctor had earlier burnt nine women after the rape. According to a media report on Wednesday, during interrogation, two accused confessed this to the police. On November 27, the four accused burnt to death after raping a Veterinary doctor. After arresting the accused, on December 6, when the police took everyone to the scene to recapture the scene, they tried to escape from there. After this, the police had encountered all four accused there.

In Telangana, questions are being raised on the encounter of 4 accused of rape and murder with the Veterinary Doctor. A petition in the case was filed in the Supreme Court on Saturday. It demanded an FIR, investigation and action against the policemen involved in the encounter. Petitioners Advocate GS Mani and Pradeep Kumar Yadav have said that the police did not follow the 2014 Supreme Court Guidelines in this case.

In a freshly arising matter arising out of the Supreme Court, the Centre has approached with an application seeking permission to disband a special investigation team (SIT) in the 1984 Sikh riots. The SIT is headed by a former Delhi High Court judge S.N. Dhingra and comprised of retired IPS officer Rajdeep Singh and serving IPS officer Abhishek Dular (2006). The committee was set up by order of the Supreme Court on January 11, 2018, entrusted to supervise the further investigation in these cases, were the closure reports were already filed. However, later on, Singh cited ‘personal grounds’ to excuse him from the membership of the said SIT, and thus now the SIT has only two members.

In the Alwar mob lynching case, the Rajasthan High Court on Wednesday ordered the cancellation of the cow smuggling case against Pehlu Khan, his...

A court has directed the police on Tuesday to register an FIR against six members of the Special Investigation Team (SIT), which probed the case, for allegedly torturing and coercing witnesses to give false statements. The decision came from the court of Judicial Magistrate Prem Sagar. He directed the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Jammu on an application by three witnesses in the case- namely Sachin Sharma, Neeraj Sharma and Sahil Sharma, saying cognizable offences are made out against the six members of the SIT.