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'We are shocked': Two deaths in Hyderabad's Shamshabad area leave locals in fear

November 30, 2019, 12:41 am
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The charred body of a woman was found in Siddulagutta, just hours after the police cracked the rape and murder case of a 27-year-old veterinarian from Hyderabad.
Nitin B.
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It was the third night that 26-year-old Shekar was spending at Siddulagutta in Shamshabad, in the outskirts of Hyderabad. Shekar, a junior artist, was busy on the sets of a film, which was being shot on Friday evening at a prominent temple."Shooting started at around 6 pm. At around 8.45 pm, I decided to go to a shop nearby as they shut early in this area, and that's when I saw it," he says, shuddering at the thought. The charred body of a woman was found in Siddulagutta on Friday night, just hours after the police cracked the rape and murder case of a 27-year-old veterinarian from Hyderabad, whose death has triggered outrage across the country.  It was also found just a few kilometres from Tondupally toll plaza, where the vet was gang-raped and murdered, before her body was dumped 30 km away, near Shadnagar. "I saw that a few people gathered at the spot. They were all shocked. I went closer to see what happened, and that's when we saw a woman's body, still on fire. She was already dead by then," Shekar recalls. A police patrol car which was nearby, arrived soon, and cordoned off the area."Even though she was on fire, her body had just frozen. I've never seen anything like it. I couldn't eat dinner after that and I had disturbed sleep. Even now, if I think about it, it makes me shudder," he adds. The police said that they were informed about the incident at around 9 pm when witnesses dialled 100. "The body was still burning when the patrol parties arrived. The witnesses tried to douse the fire using blankets," Shamshabad ACP Ashok Kumar told the media on Friday night. Murder or suicide? The police however, said that the woman, identified as Kavitha (35), was a resident of Dhoolpet in Hyderabad and had left her home at 1 pm on Friday. "Prima facie, it looks like she killed herself. We spoke to witnesses in the area who said that she was sitting in the temple and crying. She told some locals that she was waiting for her family to come and take her," Shamshabad DCP N Prakash Reddy told TNM on Saturday morning. The police said that they also got a whiff of either petrol or kerosene in the air when they were shifting the body. A cap, presumably belonging to the bottle in which she carried the flammable liquid, was also recovered from the scene. Forensic teams have collected evidence and sent it for tests."We are going through CCTV footage for more clues," DCP Prakash Reddy added. The police also suspect that the woman may not be a native of the area, as no missing complaints had been registered with the police stations in and around Shamshabad.  The woman's body was shifted to Osmania General Hospital (OGH) for a post-mortem. The film set nearby Locals shocked When TNM visited the spot on Saturday morning, several locals had gathered after watching the news, to get a glimpse of the spot. "We are in shock. Two deaths so close to our village has left many of us concerned. This road is frequently taken by those visiting the Siddulagutta temple," says Kishan, a local from nearby Tondpalle, as he visited the spot on Saturday morning. Others who saw the body being shifted were also troubled."When I heard that there was a shoot taking place here, I visited that spot at around 8 pm and was returning, when I saw a crowd at the small temple. I thought it was another shoot and came closer, but I was shocked. The police were already at the spot by then," says Shankar"A lot of us are worried. We have never seen anything happen like this before. Now within a few days, two such incidents have taken place. It has made us worry about our safety," says a woman, who works at Fort Grand, a massive convention centre, just a stone's throw away from where the incident took place. The police said that further details would be revealed soon. On Friday, the Cyberabad police arrested four for the gangrape and murder of a 26-year-old veterinary doctor, a resident of Shamshabad.  Telangana Home Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali said that the case would be tried in a fast-track court. Read:  How the four accused in brutal gangrape and murder of Hyderabad vet were nabbed ‘Police apathy cost us our daughter’: Hyderabad vet’s family after brutal murder
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Protests break out in Telangana over gangrape and murder of 26-year-old vet

November 30, 2019, 1:00 am
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Major protests broke out in Shamshabad as well as outside Shadnagar police station on Saturday.
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Protests broke out across Hyderabad and Telangana on Saturday in the wake of the brutal gangrape and murder of a 26-year-old vet on the outskirts of the city earlier this week. Four men have been arrested for the crime, police said on Friday. In Shamshabad, where the murder and rape occurred, a massive student protest was organised as scores demanded justice for the victim. Anger spilled out on to the streets as students gathered at Shamshabad, close to the residence of the vet, and staged a protest, bringing traffic to a standstill. Several locals also stormed the Shadnagar police station, where the accused are being held, and blocked the road in front of it. They raised slogans condemning the crime and demanded an 'encounter' of the accused in the case. The locals raised slogans of ‘we want justice’ and demanded the execution of the accused. Police tightened security and deployed additional force around the station in case the situation turned violent.  The accused will be taken to Shadnagar court on Saturday, where they will be produced before the magistrate.  The Executive Committee of the Bar Association, Ranga Reddy District court, also condemned the murder and appealed to its members not to represent for the accused in court. They also sought a special court to expedite the trial and ensure 'instant justice'. Protests were also carried out in Vijayawada, where those gathered demanded safety for women and strict action against the accused. The accused have been identified as Mohammed Areef (26), Jollu Shiva (20), Jollu Naveen (20) and Chintakunta Chennakeshavulu (20), all of whom are natives of Narayanpet district. According to police, the four allegedly plotted the rape after seeing the victim park her vehicle near the Tondupally toll gate in Shamshabad on Tuesday around 6 pm. They were reportedly consuming alcohol at the time.  Naveen allegedly deflated the tyre of the woman’s scooter, and when she returned, Areef, a lorry driver, showed her the puncture and offered to send it for repair. He asked Shiva to take the bike to a repair shop.  Around this time, she made the chilling last phone call to her sister. Later, they forcibly took her to a compound where she was raped, and killed after Areef caused her to suffocate, police said. The accused then allegedly burnt her body after procuring petrol from a station near Kothur.   Chevella MP Ranjith Reddy visited the family of the deceased veterinarian. A member of the National Commission for Women, along with a lawyer, has also met with the family.  With IANS inputs Read also: How the four accused in brutal gangrape and murder of Hyderabad vet were nabbed'We are shocked': Two deaths in Hyderabad's Shamshabad area leave locals in fear 
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How Hyderabad vet's rape and murder was communalised on social media

November 30, 2019, 2:41 am
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Even before the arrests, many accounts clearly supporting a certain kind of ideology, began spreading the false narrative that there was a communal angle to this.
DVL Padma Priya
On Friday, at around 9 am, Twitter trends in India showed the top trend with the name of the Hyderabadi veterinarian surgeon who was brutally raped and murdered on Thursday night. Her body was found in the early hours of Friday morning and the news trickled out, shocking people across the nation. By this time, Telugu news channels had begun flashing visuals of the gruesome murder, and photos began circulating across social media, continuing the trend. While a couple of posts raised their voice on violence against women (ironically this rape, along with at least three other gruesome rapes across the country, took place a few days into the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence), many others took the opportunity to give a communal hue to the rape. At 9.26 am, Payal Rohtagi, a Bollywood actor and a vocal supporter of the ruling party BJP, put out a tweet asking if “Shadnagar is a Muslim majority area”, garnering over 4200 retweets. Her account was reported by multiple Twitter users across the country and as of this morning, she has supposedly been locked out of her account. Even before the arrests, many accounts clearly supporting a certain kind of ideology, began spreading the false narrative that there was a communal angle to this. Many also asked “Why are liberals not raising their voice against atrocity against Hindu woman”. Then at 1.41 pm, Goshamahal BJP MLA Raja Singh tweeted a video in which he is talking about the incident. In the video, he says, “Someone named Mohammed was behind it” and also mentions a Mohammed Pasha. This added to the already deepening communal weaponizing of the death of a woman and soon, another trend began to appear with the name of the alleged perpetrator. All through Friday, numerous people also reported a number of tweets that fall in the purview of “inciting communal hatred” but it didn’t stop the trends from continuing. Experts have, in the past, shown how trends on social media are manufactured and driven by a few influencers accounts. Some repeat offenders such as Postcard founder Mahesh Vikram Hegde too drove this narrative forward. He has, in the past, been arrested for spreading fake news with a communal twist. Amit Malviya, the architect of the BJP IT cell, tweeted about the incident but conveniently named only one of the accused. Andhra Pradesh Mahila Congress’s Twitter account, too, put out a defamatory tweet which was then taken down with another tweet clarifying that it was the work “of a mischievous volunteer who has since been fired”. For a lot of Hyderabadis like me, watching the horror unfold on ground and on social media was too much to process. From what should have been a discussion on women’s safety, alleged police lapses and the problem of rape culture, the discussion, unfortunately, on social media took a dark twist with the religion of the perpetrators becoming the main focus. Many of the rumours were also spread through Whatsapp, Facebook, and Instagram. Across the world, in conflicts, the rape of women is used as a weapon and there is an established pattern of how women and children become vulnerable in such deepening conflicts. In India, however, the weaponizing of rape is happening in the name of victims and their perpetrators. And this incident in Hyderabad is not the first such case. Not the first time A similar playbook was used when the mutilated and decomposed body of a two-year-old was found earlier this year in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. A narrative was spread that the girl was raped and killed by members of a particular community even before actual facts came to light - that the child was not raped (the postmortem report confirmed this), and the murder was the result of a financial dispute between the family of the victim and the accused. A year ago, when an eight-year-old child from Kathua was raped in a temple and murdered, a battle broke out on social media, ranging between accusing the Jammu and Kashmir police of spreading lies to “Hinduphobia”  Videos supposedly of Muslim men abusing women and children were also circulated, without even blurring the faces of the victims. And with little to no effort from social media platforms to control these stories, fake narratives and news are being spread with an ease that is now having a long-lasting impact on the already thin fabric of national integrity in the country. It almost feels like people are just waiting to pounce on issues and incidents that fit the larger agenda of spreading communal hatred and Islamaphobia. For instance, on Friday, at least four gruesome incidents of rape and murder were reported from different parts of the country, from Jharkhand to Kerala. One of the cases – that of a Dalit woman from Tamil Nadu - too trended on Twitter but it didn’t take on a communal hue. It was this incident (of the Hyderabad vet) of the four that was picked up and given a communal colour, as one of the accused is a Muslim, clearly proving that the agenda was not women’s safety but to create an atmosphere of fear and distrust.  Addressing attitudes that create rape culture One other thing that came to light was how ethics were thrown to the wind (yet again) by the media and social media while sharing the photos of the victim. The more gruesome the incident, the more it fits a certain narrative, then the more eyeballs it gets. While this, unfortunately, has become the nature of social media, I hope all of us pause a bit before we share and forward such photos and videos which do nothing to progress the conversation around violence against women. Little thought was given by people across the board to the family which was reeling under an unimaginable trauma, before they shared the photo of the body of the victim, juxtaposing it with that of her when she alive. For the Hyderabad police who were under immense pressure to crack the case at the earliest, the communal narrative being spread on social media was the least of their worries. Like a senior officer reportedly told Boom Live,  "There are three Hindus and one Muslim in the list of the accused. So tell me, how is it a communal incident?" At the end of it all, this incident will be forgotten, another trend will appear and the most important discussion on toxic rape culture and failing legal measures will be pushed into the background. We need to discuss more the attitudes fueling these incidents, including the one which involves blaming victims. Take, for example, the comment made by the Home Minister of Telangana who said the victim should have called 100 instead of calling her sister. That comment is reflective of how little men understand the lives of women. The question should be and remains why don’t women call 100 even if their instinct tells them that they might be in danger. How many of us would think of calling 100 if we have a flat tyre? Are police in India really so accessible that we feel confident enough to call them? What if she did call the police and the police turned up and asked: “Why she was wasting our time with a false alarm?” Why did the police, as alleged by the victim’s parents, hint that she may have eloped when they raised an alarm? On Friday, the Cyberabad police at the press conference announcing the arrest of the accused, also repeatedly urged women and senior citizens to call 100 in case they need assistance. I wish they had also used the opportunity to tell the men in the society not to rape. I wish men around us carried some of the burden of our safety and did not use it as a way to curb our aspirations and ambitions. And communalising incidents such as these only takes the focus away from having a real and honest discussion on women’s safety and the root cause for the continuing violence against women. I wish more men called out each other on toxic masculinity and rape culture. I am waiting for men - ministers, police, brothers, fathers and sons - to take accountability for the actions of their kind and pledge to make our society a safer place, instead of telling women not to be out late, not to travel alone, not to dress a certain way or be a certain way. Padma Priya is the co-founder & editor of Suno India, a podcast platform for issues that matter.
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Amid high drama, four accused in Hyderabad vet's murder sent to judicial custody

November 30, 2019, 3:11 am
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A large crowd attempted to storm the Shadnagar police station where the accused were held, and the police resorted to lathi-charge to disperse the protestors.
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After a day of high drama with a standoff between a large mob of protestors and the police, a magistrate in Telangana's Shadnagar Town sent all four accused in the gruesome gangrape and murder of a woman veterinarian to judicial custody for 14 days. The Mandal Executive Magistrate passed the orders at Shadnagar police station as the accused could not be produced in a fast-track court at Mahabubnagar, mainly because of the tense situation that prevailed outside the police station. The magistrate was brought to the police station from the back door. Accused Mohammed Arif, Chintakunta Chennakeshavulu, Jollu Shiva and Jollu Naveen are likely to be shifted to Mahabubnagar jail. After repeated requests by officials failed to pacify the crowd, the police resorted to lathi-charge to disperse the protestors. Demanding that the accused be publicly hanged, citizens were staging protest at the police station since Friday morning. Raising slogans of "we want justice", angry local residents, members of women's groups and students squatted in front of the police station in the town, about 50 km from Hyderabad. They were demanding that the accused be hanged immediately without inquiry and trial. Earlier in the day, with the police unable to shift the accused out of the police station, three doctors of a government hospital were also brought to the spot to conduct medical tests, before the magistrate's visit. Police tightened security and deployed additional force around the police station to prevent violence. Shadnagar police station is handcuffed. Crowd out side the police station is increasing every hour so the police have decided to lock down the police station. pic.twitter.com/yepxdf53dP — Agasthya Kantu (@agasthyakantu) November 30, 2019 The 27-year-old veterinarian was gangraped and killed allegedly by two truck drivers and two cleaners near a toll plaza on Wednesday, close to the Outer Ring Road (ORR), at Hyderabad's Shamshabad area, just a few km away from the city's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA). The police said that after killing the woman, they later shifted the body to a place near Shadnagar town and set it afire. The charred body of the victim was found on Thursday morning. Cyberabad police on Friday night announced the arrest of the four accused, who allegedly trapped the victim by deflating a tyre of a scooty parked near the toll plaza. Police took the accused to the crime scenes on Friday night to reconstruct the crime and record their statements. It is likely to seek custody of the accused for further questioning. The chilling audio of the last phone call made by the vet, to her sister, just moments before the crime, triggered outrage and sparked protests across the country. Many demanded justice and said that the trial must conclude swiftly. The Bar Associations of Ranga Reddy and Mahbubnagar districts have decided that they will not take up the case of the accused in court. IANS inputs Read:  How the four accused in brutal gangrape and murder of Hyderabad vet were nabbed'We are shocked': Two deaths in Hyderabad's Shamshabad area leave locals in fear
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Tracing the night Hyderabad vet was raped and killed: What eye-witnesses recall

November 30, 2019, 5:09 am
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TNM traces the path between the two crime scenes, where the 26-year-old veterinary doctor was gang-raped and later burnt to death at an underpass.
Mithun MK
It was 5 am on Thursday and Narasimha, a resident of Chatanpally village under Shadnagar police station limits in Hyderabad, was on his way to milk cows. He cut across the Bangalore-Hyderabad Highway through an underpass and noticed something burning there. “I ignored it thinking someone must have lit the fire to keep themselves warm in the cold,” Narasimha told TNM. But when he returned from the fields, some time past 8 am, he noticed that a human body was burning under the underpass. “A part of the arm was not burnt and that’s what first caught my eye. Upon closer inspection, I realised it was a body being burnt,” he said. Madhuri* (name changed), a 26-year-old veterinary doctor, had gone missing on Wednesday night. Her family had spoken to her last around 9.30 pm. The veterinary doctor was barely 3.5 km away from her residence then. Around 9.44 pm, her family realised that her phone was switched off. Her burning body was found 25 km away under an underpass near Chatanpally by Narasimha and his friend Sathyam, who first alerted the police. Madhuri was gang raped and murdered allegedly by four men, who are now in police custody. “Her body was still burning when the police arrived, they were the ones who doused the fire. Her father was also with them,” Narasimha told TNM on Saturday. “It was the father who identified that the body was his daughter’s,” he added. The notorious area with no compound walls Parasnath Singh from Bihar sells tea to truckers in the night and lives in the watchman room adjoining the compound wall — just next to a toll booth of Hyderabad's Outer Ring Road — where Madhuri was gang raped and killed. “Every day, I leave my room around 9 pm to sell tea, to the other side of the toll booth and come back by 4 am. The police first questioned me, suspecting me,” said Parasnath, who added the compound wall area was regularly used by truck drivers to eat lunch and drink alcohol.  “I don’t tell them anything. They park their trucks along the service road and use one part of the compound wall to have their lunch and use the bushes as a toilet. I am an outsider in this state and live here because the plot owner lets me stay. I stay alone, have always kept to myself and don’t interact with the truck drivers,” he added. Madhuri had parked her two-wheeler at 6 pm near the compound wall and at the mouth of the service road that connects the Bangalore-Hyderabad Highway to the Nehru Outer Ring Road. While she was parking her vehicle, she was allegedly being watched by Mohammad Areef, a lorry driver and the prime accused, along with his cleaner Jollu Siva and the other two accomplices, Naveen and Chennakeshavulu. The four were consuming alcohol at the time. Their lorry was also parked along the service road, adjacent to the compound wall. With the plan to sexually assault her, they deflated the scooter tyre and waited say the police. Madhuri returned from a Gachibowli hospital at 9.15 pm to pick up her vehicle and head home, only to find a flat tyre. Areef then offered to help her get the tyre changed. Once night sets in, there are no street lights to light up this service road. The only light to shine on this stretch of road would be from the toll booth and from the junction leading up to the booth. The only CCTV cameras on this stretch are also at these two points, which are perhaps 500 meters apart. “Even if you scream from here, no one can hear you due to the sound of vehicles on the road,” said one police officer guarding the crime scene. Tollbooth that had view of the crime scene Sometime between 9.15 pm and 9.35 pm, Shonu was in the toll booth, when Madhuri and one of the four accused who had accompanied her, approached him. “She asked me if there was a tyre repair shop nearby. I told her that I did not know, and they kept walking towards the Shamshabad direction. I didn’t notice what happened after that. Around 10, I went to sleep,” says the youth from Kolkata, who had joined work at the toll booth barely a month ago. “I told the police the same and helped them describe the person who was with her at the time. I really did not know where the tyre repair shop was; I am new here,” he added. Around 9.40 pm, Madhuri’s phone was turned off. The unwalled part of the compound area and the bushes where Madhuri was gang raped and murdered is visible from the toll booth where Shonu collects toll from vehicles entering Hyderabad. His view that evening, however, was blocked by the truck of the accused. Add to this, the lights from the vehicles approaching the toll booth. The Shamshabad police officer, who on most days patrol the 30 km stretch of the road where Madhuri was murdered, had noticed the lorry and her bike parked near the compound wall, but didn’t make much of it then, “We do three rounds of checks every evening but we have only one car and two bikes to cover this stretch and adjoining areas. We often tell the truck drivers to remove their vehicles parked along the service road, but if they are eating food, we tell them to remove it later,” said the officer. According to the police, around 10.08 pm, the accused moved the victim’s body from the bushes into the lorry. While Siva and Naveen drove away with Madhuri’s two-wheeler after 9.30 pm, the lorry departed a few minutes later and proceeded towards Shadnagar. Around 1 am, the accused riding the two-wheeler stopped at Essar Petrol pump near Nandigam to buy petrol. Though the distance between the toll booth and Nandigam is around 45 minutes, the lorry took more than two hours to reach the place. One can assume that the group may have looked for other places on the way to dump the body. At the petrol pump, however, things didn't go according to plan as the pump did not sell them petrol out of suspicion. The accused then bought petrol from an Indian Oil fuel station near Kothur. The four accused also took some diesel in a bottle from their lorry. They then took a u-turn near Shadnagar crossroads and stopped on the road above the underpass near Chatanpally. The desolate underpass at Chatanpally  TNM traversed on this route and found that the underpass at Chatanpally is the fifth underpass from the Tondupally toll booth. So why did the gang choose this spot to burn her body? Unlike the four other underpasses before that, which are near residences and witness regular traffic, the underpass at Chatanpally is desolate and had only agricultural fields on either side. Parking the lorry there, they covered the body in a blanket, carried it to the underpass and set her body on fire. According to the police, this was around 2 am-2.30 am. The accused then left the second crime scene, disposed of the two-wheeler near Kothur and proceeded towards Aramghar junction and parted ways. Areef proceeded in the lorry to deliver his load in the city. “No one apart from a few of the farmers here and our tractors uses this underpass,” states Narasimha. As of Saturday, the four accused have been presented before the city court and were given 14-day custody to the police.
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3 policemen suspended in Hyderabad vet's rape and murder case

November 30, 2019, 6:57 pm
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The police personnel were suspended for delay in registering a missing persons case when the victim’s family approached them.
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Following the horrific gang-rape and murder of a 26-year-old veterinary doctor in the outskirts of Hyderabad, the Cyberabad police on Saturday suspended three policemen, including a sub-inspector, for the delay in registering a missing persons case of the victim.  As per the police press note, Cyberabad Police Commissioner VC  Sajjanar said the police personnel were suspended for dereliction of duty. The Commissioner said that a detailed inquiry has found that they delayed the registration of an FIR relating to the missing woman on the intervening night of November 27 and 28. The suspended police personnel are: M Ravi Kumar, Sub-Inspector of Police, Shamshabad Police Station, P Venu Gopal Reddy and A Sathyanarayana Goud, both head-constables at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) Police Station."All the officers of Cyberabad Police have been once again instructed to register cases irrespective of jurisdiction whenever a complaint related to cognisable offence is received at the police station," said the Commissioner. The family of the victim had earlier alleged that the police did not respond quickly when they approached them to lodge the missing complaint at 11 pm. They said the police wasted a lot of time over jurisdiction issue between two police stations, besides asking them inappropriate questions. The victim's mother had told TNM, “The police spoke to us very rudely, in a disgusting manner. They kept saying she would have gone with someone. I kept saying my daughter is not like that, but they didn’t listen. Their apathy cost us our daughter, they didn’t do what they should have.” Besides speaking rudely to the family, police also allegedly suggested that the victim could have eloped. The victim's sister had told TNM, “I understand that the police need to look at all angles in an investigation, but they were so sure that my sister voluntarily went somewhere, and didn’t take my concerns seriously. That is wrong.” According to the National Commissioner for Women (NCW), the police asked the victim's mother if she had an affair with anyone. The NCW took cognizance of the incident and had sent a team headed by panel member Shyamala K Sundar to look into the case. Slamming the police for allegedly delaying the inquiry, the NCW members said that the police played a 'negative role' in the investigation. They further asked the state government to start the State Women’s Commission with immediate effect. The NCW members also pointed out that there were no women officers in the team probing the case and police did not give protection to the family. The victim's family had approached the police one-and-half hours after she had called her sister from her mobile phone, stating that she was stranded near a toll gate at Shamshabad as her two-wheeler was punctured. The victim also told her that she was feeling scared as the place was deserted. IANS inputs Read: Tracing the night Hyderabad vet was raped and killed: What eye-witnesses recall
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Hyderabad vet was raped even after she was killed, police remand report

November 30, 2019, 8:13 pm
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The accused raped the victim in the lorry cabin, according to reports.
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Chilling details have emerged in the remand report filed by police in the brutal gang-rape and murder of the 26-year-old veterinary doctor from Shamshabad in Hyderabad. According to reports, the victim was sexually assaulted even after she had died. The victim was found burnt at Chatanpally village, outskirts of Hyderabad on Thursday morning. According to The New Indian Express, the four arrested accused — Mohammed Areef, Jollu Shiva, Jollu Naveen and Chintakunta Chennakeshavulu — had assaulted the dead victim in the lorry cabin before burning her body at Chatanpally underpass. Jollu Shiva, who is accused number two, had taken the vehicle of 26-year-old veterinarian’s two-wheeler on the pretext of getting it repaired and returned to the scene to sexually assault her even though she was dead by then. On Wednesday, after forcibly taking the victim to an abandoned room, the accused forced her to drink soft drinks laced with alcohol, hit her on the head, raped her and then killed her.  “By the time Shiva returned to the spot after filling air in the tyre, she was already dead due to asphyxiation as they forcefully closed her mouth and nose. However, he went ahead and assaulted her body,” a senior officer told The Hindu. Reportedly, this was disclosed by the prime accused Mohammed Areef during the investigation. The police also found strands of hair, blood stains and a piece of a torn scarf in the lorry cabin.  After committing the crime, the accused took the half-naked body in the lorry, wrapped it in a blanket, doused it with petrol and set it on fire in the underpass of Shadnagar Outer Ring Road. Meanwhile, a magistrate from Shadnagar sent all four accused who committed the gruesome crime to judicial custody for 14 days on Saturday. The Mandal Executive Magistrate passed the orders at Shadnagar police station as the accused could not be produced before the fast-track court at Mahabubnagar due to the non-availability of the judge and also because of the agitated crowd outside the police station. A large number of people had gathered outside Shadnagar police station where the accused were housed, demanding justice for the victim and raising slogans so that they be given the death penalty. 
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‘Burn him too if he’s guilty’: Mother of accused in Hyderabad gangrape reacts in shock

November 30, 2019, 11:00 pm
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‘If my son committed the crime, burn him too. My son is nothing to me. Wrong is wrong,’ said the mother of one of the accused.
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Echoing the thoughts of agitated citizens who are demanding death penalty for the four accused as justice for the 26-year-old Hyderabad veterinary doctor who was brutally raped and murdered, parents of two of the accused have said that they want their sons to be punished if found guilty. On Thursday, Telangana woke up to the horror of a young woman being burnt at Chatanpally village, under Shadnagar police limits, in the outskirts of Hyderabad. Later, police found out that the victim was gangraped and killed. Jayamma, mother of Chennakeshavulu, who is accused number four in the gangrape and murder, told media, “If my son committed the crime, burn him too. My son is nothing to me. Wrong is wrong. She (victim’s mother) gave birth to a daughter after nine months. Her daughter becoming the victim of such a crime… what she must be going through.” Jayamma said that Areef, the prime accused, had come to their house on Tuesday to take Chennakeshavulu along with him. Her son was supposed to return on Wednesday, but didn’t. She said that Chennakeshavulu had not been working for the past six months as he had a kidney ailment and was availing treatment at the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital in Hyderabad. “We don’t believe that he committed the crime, but if he did indeed commit it then he should face the same punishment as the other accused,” she said. Jayamma said that she too has a daughter and understands the pain of the grieving mother of the victim. Similarly, Hussain, father of the prime accused Areef, said that his son should be given the punishment that he deserves. All the four accused hail from Telangana’s Narayanpet district. Among them, Areef is from Jakkulare village, while the others are from Gudigandla. Both these villages come under Makthal mandal. Meanwhile on Saturday, residents of Makthal carried out large protests demanding justice for the victim. Presently, all the four accused have been sent to 14 days’ judicial custody. Read: Tracing the night Hyderabad vet was raped and killed: What eye-witnesses recall
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Hours after protesting for Hyd rape victim, BJP youth leader booked for alleged sexual harassment

November 30, 2019, 11:41 pm
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Ashish Goud, son of former MLA Nandeshwar Goud, was booked based on a complaint by a former Bigg Boss contestant.
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Ashish Goud, son of a former MLA from Telangana, has been booked by the Madhapur police for harassing a former Bigg Boss contestant.  Ashish is the son of Nandeshwar Goud, who was the former legislator of Patancheru constituency in the state in 2009. Nandeshwar was a Congress MLA in 2009, after which he joined BJP in 2016 and later joined the TDP in 2019. Ashish is also a member of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM). The incident took place early on Sunday (December 1) at around 2 am at a hotel in Madhapur, Cyberabad. According to the complaint filed by the 27-year-old woman, she and her friends had been standing in a corner and listening to music, when Ashish and his friends approached them and began misbehaving with them. “He (Ashish) and two of his friends misbehaved with me and my friends by catching hands, shouted on us with stupid vulgar language. Ashish Goud and his friends threw bottles (glass) on the floor and about to hit us (sic),” the complaint says. Following her complaint, Madhapur police have filed an FIR under Section 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and Section 509 (Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). “The woman came and filed a complaint with us, following which we filed the FIR. However, the accused is absconding and we are yet to apprehend him,” said a police official from the Madhapur police station to TNM. Responding to the allegations, Ashish Goud spoke to the media on Sunday afternoon. “I found out this morning that there is some news claiming that I misbehaved and it is being spread. That is all false. If there is something like that, people should come forward with proof. It’s become a habit nowadays for everyone to issue blank complaints like this. We are not those who get scared for this,” he said. Ironically, the incident at the pub happened hours after Ashish took part in a protest calling for the hanging of those accused in raping and killing a Hyderabad vet. His Facebook page shows him participating in a protest. “This injustice which has happened to (name redacted) is so heartbreaking, these crimes are growing day by day. These criminals have to be hanged to death or shoot to death. No more candle light marches or protests, serious action should be taken and the only solution is hanging these brutual rapists,” reads one of the posts on the Facebook page of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) leader.   (Screenshot from Ashish Goud's FB page) On Thursday, the body of 26-year-old Madhuri*, the body of a veterinarian doctor from Hyderabad was found badly burnt and subsequent investigations revealed that the young woman was gangraped and murdered in an elaborately planned malicious plot. Her death has been met with immense anger and several protests have been ongoing ever since the tragic news broke.  (*Name changed)
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Techie found unconscious in her home in Hyderabad after alleged assault by friend

December 1, 2019, 2:20 am
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The accused locked the victim inside the house and fled the spot after an alleged attempt of rape.
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A Hyderabad woman techie was found lying unconscious at her home after her friend allegedly tried to rape her on Saturday night. The accused locked the woman inside the house and fled the spot. When the woman’s sister reached the house a few hours later, the woman was shifted to Gandhi hospital for treatment. According to reports, the woman had befriended the accused, Jayal Chand, through a matrimonial website in a proposal for her elder sister. The sisters were living together in a rented house at in Bachupally. “The accused knew where the victim lived after befriending her on the matrimonial website. Her family also knew the accused because of the marriage proposal,” Bachupally inspector G Jagdeeshwar told TNM. On Saturday morning, Jayal Chand landed in front of their house, which both the sisters disapproved of. “The victim was in the house while her sister had gone for work. She immediately called her mother and informed her of Jayal’s visit. The mother in turn informed her elder daughter who threatened the accused to leave the place. After some time, the victim informed her family that Jayal had left the house,” the inspector said. But around 7 pm the same day, the accused barged into the victim’s house and according to reports, attempted to rape her. However, police say that sexual assault is not yet confirmed and the victim is undergoing medical treatment. “Few articles from the house were missing while the woman was found lying in an unconscious state inside the house. Her sister immediately took her to Gandhi Hospital and then filed a complaint at the police station. Jayal Chand is absconding and investigation is on to nab him,” Jagdeeshwar said. The incident comes in the wake of the brutal murder of a veterinary doctor in Telangana. The rape and murder of the young woman has led to scores to take on to the streets demanding justice for the victim. The incident has also once again shed light on the question of safety of women in metros like Hyderabad.
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Hyderabad gangrape: KTR demands death penalty without review for rapists

December 1, 2019, 3:31 am
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Protests have been organised in several parts of the country against the horrific gang-rape of the 26-year-old woman.
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As citizens continue to seeth with anger over the gruesome gangrape and murder of a 26-year-old veterinary doctor in the outskirts of Hyderabad, Telangana Minister for Municipal Administration & Urban Development, KT Rama Rao on Sunday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to amend the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Code of Criminal Procedure (CRPC) so that rapists are given capital punishment without delay and left with no option for review. The Minister in a series of tweets said that time to 'amend archaic portions of our Acts and Laws' have come. He wrote, "7 years after Nirbhaya’s ghastly rape & murder; the convicts are still not hung! A 9-month child is raped recently, lower court ordered capital punishment; HC revised it to life imprisonment! A young veterinarian is barbarically murdered in Hyderabad. And the perpetrators have been nabbed. But I wonder how we can offer solace to the grieving family seeking justice. Justice delayed is justice denied sir. As the Parliament is in session, I urge you to take up the issue for a day-long discussion on priority." (sic) He added, "Let us act swiftly to save our nation from these beasts who seem not to fear law of the land @narendramodi Ji, I appeal to you on behalf of millions of citizens who’re aggrieved yet feel helpless and want us lawmakers to raise up to the occasion and deliver expeditious justice." Protests have been organised in several parts of the country against the horrific gang-rape of the 26-year-old woman, demanding death penalty to the four arrested accused who have been identified as Areef, Shiva, Naveen and Chennakeshavulu. On Saturday, tension prevailed in Shadnagar after a large number of people had gathered outside Shadnagar police station, raising slogans, ready to break open the jail and lynch the accused. However, police managed to control the crowd using force. After a day of high drama with a standoff between a large mob of protestors and the police, a magistrate in Telangana's Shadnagar Town sent all four accused in the gruesome gangrape and murder of a woman veterinarian to judicial custody for 14 days. Meanwhile, three police personnel including a Sub-Inspector was suspended for their insensitivity when the victim's parents approached police to investigate the missing of her daughter. Police allegedly suggested that the victim could have eloped. In TNM's investigation, we found that the road stretch leading to the crime spot had no street lights. 
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'Why hasn’t CM KCR reacted?' angry neighbours of Hyd vet lock gates in protest

December 1, 2019, 3:35 am
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A number of politicians and others, including some film actors had called on the victims family members since the tragic incident occurred on Thursday.
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Mounting public anger over the rape and murder of the woman veterinarian here saw residents of the colony where she stayed turning away political leaders and others who wanted to call on her family on Sunday to express their sympathies. The residents locked the gates of the colony at Shamshabad on the outskirts of the city and held aloft placards that read ‘No Media, No Police, No Outsiders, - No sympathy, only action, justice.’ Condemning the incident, a woman asked why Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had so far not reacted to the incident, which occurred on Thursday. “Police have said they nabbed the four accused who have confessed to their crime. Why is the Chief Minister not ensuring quick justice? Why is the same treatment not being meted out to them (accused) for what they have done to the girl?" she asked. Another woman asked why the Prime Minister has not yet tweeted on the incident. Former CPI(M) MLA J Ranga Reddy and his party workers, who were asked by the residents to go back, told PTI that he and his colleagues squatted at the gates of the colony for some time, expressing support for the family. He demanded that the Chief Minister take steps to ensure a quick response by police to prevent crimes against women. A number of politicians and others, including some film actors had called on the victims family members since the tragic incident occurred on Thursday. The charred body of the woman, working as an assistant veterinarian at a state-run hospital,was found under a culvert in Shadnagar near here on November 28 morning, a day after she went missing.
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Hyd vet murder: Cops contemplate whether to book outlet that sold petrol to accused

December 1, 2019, 4:28 am
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In view of multiple incidents, the state government has issued instructions not to sell petrol in bottles or containers.
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Police are seeking legal opinion on whether a case should be filed against the employees of a fuel outlet for selling petrol in a bottle to the four accused in the case relating to rape and murder of a woman veterinary doctor near here. A 27-year old woman veterinary doctor was raped and killed by four truck drivers on November 27 at Tondapalli toll plaza on the outskirts of the city. Later, they burnt the body, by pouring petrol on it."We are verifying with those working at the fuel outlet under what circumstances they filled petrol in bottle. We are seeking legal opinion and will proceed accordingly," Cyberabad Commissioner VC Sajjanar told PTI. The accused had first approached a petrol station to buy fuel. As the attendant refused to fill the bottle, they approached another gas station and bought it. Meanwhile, Joint Secretary of Consortium of Petroleum Dealers for South India, Rajiv Amaram said the outlets were authorised to sell the fuel in limited quantities. Noting that petrol can be sold up to five litres while Diesel up to 200 litres, he said, however, in view of the recent incidents, the state government has issued instructions not to sell petrol in bottles or containers. He referred to the gruesome incident in which a woman tahsildar was allegedly set ablaze by a man in her office near here in broad daylight over some suspected land dispute. Vijaya Reddy, in her mid-30s, died on the spot and two other staff in the office were injured trying to rescue her. Later the accused and one of her staff members who tried to rescue also succumbed to their injuries."Since then, many of the fuel stations have not been filling petrol in bottles or cans.The Petrol pump dealers association also discourage it because if something goes wrong we are summoned to police stations and subjected to scrutiny," Amaram said. 
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KCR's first public reaction on Hyd vet murder, says case will be fast tracked

December 1, 2019, 6:20 am
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This is KCR’s first public statement since the gangrape and murder case came to light on Wednesday morning.
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The case of gangrape and murder of a 26-year-old Hyderabad veterinarian would be heard in a fast track court, announced Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Sunday. The announcement comes a day after the state witnessed massive protests demanding justice for the victim and her family.  The Chief Minister in his first public statement after the incident that came to light on Wednesday, expressed his deep anguish and described the incident as a ghastly and inhuman act. The Chief Minister has reportedly instructed officials that the probe should also be fast-tracked and culprits be given stringent punishment, reported Telangana Today.  KCR pointed out that in the murder case involving a minor at Warangal, the fast track court was able to deliver justice within 56 days. He has directed the officials to initiate the process for setting up a fast track court and ensure that the culprits get tough punishment, a statement from his office said. The Chief Minister hopes that the verdict would come quick, he also announced that the state would extend necessary help and support to the victims family, the statement further said. The 26-year-old veterinary doctor was found dead in Chatanpally village, in the outskirts of Hyderabad on Thursday. After raping and killing her, the four arrested accused—Areef, Shiva, Naveen and Chennakeshavulu — dumped the body at the underpass near Outer Ring Road, Shadnagar on Wednesday and set it on fire. The Shadnagar police found the body on Thursday after a villager alerted them. Subsequently, using CCTV footage, and the last conversation which the victim had with her sister, police could crack the case. Besides these clues, a petrol bunk employee also said that two of the accused had come in the victim’s scooter and filled petrol in a bottle. Using these pieces of evidence, police tracked down the accused on Friday and arrested them. Amidst tension, they were sent to judicial custody of 14 days by Shadnagar magistrate on Saturday. (with inputs from PTI)
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KCR's u-turn on RTC: Showers sops on employees, to pay them salary for strike period

December 1, 2019, 7:24 pm
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However, the Telangana Chief Minister cracked down on the employee unions which were leading the strike, and said that there would be no polls for two years.
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In what seems to be a complete U-turn, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday not only showered sops on the employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC), who were on strike for nearly two months, but also assured them that not a single private bus will be allowed on TSRTC routes. Three days after over 48,000 employees resumed their duties after a 56-day-long strike, the Chief Minister assured them full job security saying that not a single employee will be sacked. During an interaction with selected employees in Hyderabad, KCR announced that salaries for September will be paid on Monday while salaries for the strike period will also be paid subsequently. Going a step forward, the Chief Minister announced that the retirement age of the employees would be increased from 58 to 60 years. He also promised to absorb the contract workers into the Corporation. He also agreed to the demand made by striking workers and said that women employees will not be given night duties and should get off work by 8 pm."In every depot, within 20 days, exclusive toilets, dress change rooms and lunchrooms for women should be created. All TSRTC women employees, like their counterparts in the government, will get three months child care leave along with maternity leave," a press release from the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) said. KCR also said that women employees need not wear the 'khaki' uniform and can pick a uniform in the colour of their choice. A similar decision could also be considered for the male employees if they wanted a change, the CM said. At Sunday's meeting, KCR announced that the government will allocate Rs 1,000 crore every year for the TSRTC from the next budget. He also shared his vision of TSRTC, saying he wished to see the transport utility turning profitable as early as possible. He also announced that in case of employees who died during the strike period, one job will be given to members of their family within eight days. The government will also pay Rs 2 lakh each as an ex-gratia. Five employees from each of the 97 RTC depots spread across the state attended the interaction held at Pragati Bhavan, the official residence of the Chief Minister. KCR also hosted a lunch for the invitees and enquired about their problems. The interaction was seen by many as an attempt to isolate the leaders of employees' unions as KCR had blamed them for misleading the employees and pushing them into a state of uncertainty and the state-owned organization further deep into losses. During the meeting, KCR announced that for a two-year period, there would not be any elections for the TSRTC recognised union. Instead, with two employees for each depot, an Employees Welfare Board will be constituted, to receive complaints, which will be directly monitored by senior officials. About 48,000 employees had been on strike since October 5 to press for 26 demands, the chief being TSRTC's merger with the government. The Chief Minister’s slew of announcements comes a month after he had declared that over 48,000 employees were 'self-dismissed' by going on an 'illegal' strike and could not resume duties before the expiry of the deadline set by the government. He had also constantly berated them for going on strike and threatened to privatise bus routes of the TSRTC, creating a fear of unemployment among striking workers. The fear of losing their jobs drove at least five employees to kill themselves during the strike while some others died of cardiac arrest with union leaders linking this to depression caused by the government's threats and non-payment of salaries. The government adopted a tough stand, drawing criticism from the entire opposition, which backed the strike and series of protest programmes were undertaken by the striking employees including a state-wide shutdown. Unfazed by the protests, KCR had even announced privatisation of 5,100 RTC routes. The government had received a shot in the arm with the Telangana High Court upholding the decision of the state cabinet to give permits to private operators on half of the RTC routes. The government's position was further bolstered by the High Court's direction to the Labour Commissioner to take a decision on the legality of the strike. He was authorised to decide on whether to approach the Labour Court or not. The Joint Action Committee (JAC), spearheading the strike, tried to outsmart the government by calling off the strike on November 25 but the TSRTC refused to take them back, citing the proceedings before the Labour Commissioner. The employees, who tried to rejoin the duties the next day, were turned back and even arrested. It was finally on November 28 that KCR decided to take back the employees. He also announced hike in bus fares to mobilise an additional income of Rs 750 crore annually to partially wipe out the losses. IANS inputs Read: Lost lives, uncertain futures: How govt apathy has left striking TSRTC workers in the lurch
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Hyderabad vet murder: Accused was caught for no license 2 days before crime, escaped

December 1, 2019, 7:35 pm
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Mohammed Areef, one of the accused in the rape and murder, was caught for not renewing his driver's license.
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In yet another disturbing detail that has emerged after the brutal rape and murder of a veterinarian in Hyderabad, officials of the Road Transport Authority (RTA) had nabbed the main accused, lorry driver Mohammed Areef, just two days before the crime was committed.  The police informed the media on Sunday that the accused was stopped by RTA officials close to Mahbubnagar while travelling from Gangavathi in Karnataka to Hyderabad.  The accused began his journey on November 24 and was stopped in the early hours of November 25. RTA officials found that Areef did not renew his driver's license since 2017.  However, the vehicle was never impounded. Investigation officials said that the accused, on instructions given by vehicle owner Srinivas Reddy, removed the motor cable to ensure that the truck would not start. As it failed to start, officials stepped away to continue their work. "When we returned, the accused had fled with the truck," assistant motor vehicles inspector Chiranjeevi told the Times of India. The police said that near the Raikal toll plaza, the accused had sold some iron and steel scrap to a scrap dealer for around Rs 4,000, which was the money that they would eventually use to buy alcohol.  By the evening of November 26, the accused had reached Thondapalli village, on the outskirts of Hyderabad. The police said that by this time, all the four accused, which included Jollu Shiva (20), Jollu Naveen (20) and Chintakunta Chennakeshavulu (20), besides Areef, had met.   On November 27 morning, as the police had asked them to move, they shifted their vehicle to the spot near the Outer Ring Road (ORR), where the crime was carried out later that same evening.   Telangana Chief Minister K .Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday directed officials to ensure that the accused are tried in a fast track court and the culprits get stringent punishment. The Chief Minister announced that the government would extend all the necessary help and support to members of the victim's family. Police on November 29 arrested the four truck drivers and cleaners for the gruesome crime, which sent shock waves across the country and evoked huge public outrage. Protests were held in several parts of the country to demand death penalty to the accused. The accused trapped the woman by deflating one of the tyres of her scooty after seeing her park there. She returned to Shamshabad at around 9 pm to pick up her parked vehicle and return home, when she found that a tyre had been deflated. After raping and killing her nearby, the police said that they transported the body in the truck to dump it near Shadnagar town, about 28 km from Shamshabad, and burnt it. A magistrate in Shadnagar town on Saturday remanded the accused to judicial custody for 14 days. They were later shifted to Cherlapally jail in Hyderabad. Read:  How the four accused in brutal gangrape and murder of Hyderabad vet were nabbed Tracing the night Hyderabad vet was raped and killed: What eye-witnesses recall  We are shocked': Two deaths in Hyderabad's Shamshabad area leave locals in fear IANS inputs
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Hyderabad police issue safety advisory to women after brutal rape and murder of vet

December 1, 2019, 9:49 pm
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Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat said that the woman should inform either her friends or family members about the travel and share their location if possible.
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The Rachakonda police in Hyderabad have issued an advisory to women about precautionary steps to be taken while travelling, in light of the recent rape and murder of a  27-year-old veterinarian in the city, which has sparked outrage across India. In a statement, Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat said that the woman should inform either her friends or family members about the travel and share their location if possible. If the mode of transport is a taxi or an auto, the Commissioner suggested that the woman should share the details of the driver along with the number plate."Get to know about the route while going to an unfamiliar place. Always wait in crowded areas and in illuminated areas and not in isolated areas. Never hesitate in calling a police patrol car or patrol bike for help. They are for your safety and security," the advisory stated. Asking women to be ready to dial 100 if needed, the Commissioner also suggested that they could download the Hyderabad police's 'Hawk Eye' app."If you are in a helpless situation, please shout and run towards a crowded area. Together we work to prevent crimes. Inform local police about local bad hats (anti-social elements)," the advisory stated."In case you want to send some pictures for verification, you can send them via WhatsApp at 9490617111," it added. Though the safety instructions are welcome, the 'suggestions' are nothing that girls and women don't already know. Besides, the Hyderabad police needs to address the laxity of its force in not being proactive and taking missing complaints seriously. In the vet's case, the police personnel took hours to take the complaint, citing jurisdiction, and even suggesting that she must have eloped with someone. Police on November 29 arrested four truck drivers and cleaners for the gruesome crime, which sent shockwaves across the country and evoked huge public outrage. Protests were held in several parts of the country to demand death penalty to the accused. The crime, which took place at the outskirts of Hyderabad at around 9.30 pm on November 27, has also highlighted the issue of women safety in public spaces, with many demanding that concrete steps be taken to prevent such an incident from recurring.  The accused trapped the woman by deflating one of the tyres of her scooty and offering to help her fix it. After killing the woman, the accused carried the body in a truck, to dump it near Shadnagar town, about 28 km from Shamshabad, and burnt the body. A magistrate in Shadnagar town on Saturday remanded the accused to judicial custody for 14 days. They were later shifted to Cherlapally jail in Hyderabad. Read: Hyderabad vet murder: Accused was caught for no license 2 days before crime, escaped  IANS inputs
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Nearly a month after MRO Vijaya Reddy's murder, attender who tried to rescue her, dies

December 1, 2019, 11:49 pm
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The attender was present in office when the accused, K Suresh, poured petrol on the MRO Vijaya Reddy and set her on fire.
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Close to a month after Mandal Revenue Officer (MRO) Vijaya Reddy was burnt to death at her office chambers on the outskirts of Hyderabad, her attender, Chandraiah, has also succumbed to his injuries. Chandraiah was present in office when the accused, K Suresh, poured petrol on the MRO and set her on fire. He was injured while trying to rescue Vijaya Reddy. The accused also succumbed to his injuries later. With this, four people have died due to the incident -- Vijaya Reddy, Chandraiah, Suresh, and the MRO's driver, Gurunatham, who had also attempted to rescue her. Doctors at the Apollo DRDO hospital who had been treating Chandraiah for burns, since the last 28 days, said that he passed away at around 3.15 am. The body was shifted to the state-run Osmania General Hospital (OGH), where an autopsy was conducted. The body is expected to be handed over to his family members soon. MRO Vijaya Reddy (37), was burnt alive in her office by K. Suresh over a land row on November 4. She succumbed to her injuries on the spot as she was charred to death. The ghastly incident left many across the state in shock. It also triggered protests from revenue employees, who blamed Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for demonising them. Revenue employees also boycotted duties for three days, demanding stringent punishment for the guilty at the time. Hundreds of employees from across the state descended in Hyderabad on November 5, a day after Vijaya's death, and participated in the last rites that were being conducted by her family. Vijaya was the first Tehsildar of Abdullahpurmpet after the office was opened around three years ago. She is survived by her husband and two children. Read:   Day after her murder, hundreds bid emotional farewell to Telangana MRO Vijaya Reddy Tehsildar burnt alive in Telangana: Was a land row behind ghastly murder?'KCR demonized us': Revenue employees protest after Telangana MRO's murder
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Bodies of 2 Telangana forest officers who drowned in boat capsize, found after 24 hrs

December 2, 2019, 2:32 am
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The incident happened around 10.30 am on Sunday, while the officials were returning on a hired country-made boat.
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The bodies of two forest beat officers who drowned in Pranahitha river near Gudemrevu of Chintamanepalli in Kumram Bheem-Asifbad district of Telangana, have been retrieved after 24 hours.  According to forest officials, Munjam Balakrishna (30) and Bhagawath Suresh Naik (35) were returning from Gadchiroli of Aheri on a country-made boat along with another beat officer Saddam Hussain. The incident happened around 10.30 am on Sunday. The beat officials, working in Kharjelli range along the Pranahitha river, on suspicion of movement of timber smugglers, traveled to Aheri area by using an under-construction bridge. The incident happened while they're returning on a hired country-made boat. The boat was travelling with six people, including three officials.  While four of them were able to save themselves by swimming to safety, two of the officials drowned and went missing. Police, forest officials and disaster response teams of both the states along with the NDRF, were engaged in rescue operations for the past 24 hours. Speaking to TNM, Asifabad District Forest Officer (DFO) Lakshman Ranjit Naik, said, "The incident happened after a regular recce as the country-made boat which they were travelling in, capsized on Sunday around 10.30 am and two officials, Balkrishna and Suresh Naik, drowned." He added, "This morning, following a joint rescue operation by teams of both the states and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), the two bodies were retrieved. A postmortem is underway." The stretch along the Pranahitha river is known for smuggling of teak wood and timber to neighbouring Maharashtra. Read:  A 20-year saga of timber smuggling: How Telangana’s ‘Veerappan’ landed in police net  
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How poor infrastructure also let down Hyderabad vet who was gangraped and killed

December 2, 2019, 2:38 am
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There are not enough traffic police personnel to monitor illegal parking of trucks near ORR, and no designated truck bays where trucks can park legally either.
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For close to 12 hours, the truck driven by Mohammad Areef was parked at the service road near the Thondapaly toll booth. According to the police, he had initially parked the truck near Thondapaly village on Tuesday, but he was asked to move by the police on Wednesday morning. He ended up parking the vehicle near a compound next to the service road near the toll booth - the same one where Areef and his three accomplices would allegedly plot, and commit the shocking gangrape and murder of a veterinary doctor heading back home later.  The brutal crime against Madhuri* is not just reflective of how scary the world can be for women everywhere, but also of systemic and infrastructural failure at many levels. For instance, Areef and the others accused of Madhuri’s rape and murder parking their vehicle on the service road near the toll booth was an illegal act. All along the Bengaluru-Hyderabad Highway leading up to Shadnagar, there are no designated parking lots or restrooms for truck drivers. “There are just two traffic policemen to cover the 15 km stretch near where the woman was murdered,” says G Narayana Reddy, Inspector, RGIA Airport Traffic Police station. “There are no truck bays for legal parking. If we tell the drivers to take their vehicle away, they go park at some other place, illegally again.”   Not enough truck bays on the highway Once Areef and his companions parked their vehicle near Thondapaly toll plaza, beside Gachibowli ORR, they were consuming liquor in a nearby compound when they noticed the veterinarian, Madhuri, park her two-wheeler near their lorry around 6 pm. After they allegedly murdered her, they left Madhuri’s charred remains 25 km away from the compound, where her body was found the next morning. The toll booth was only 3.5 km away from her residence at Shamshabad.  Had the accused been resting at a designated truck bay, and if there had been a proper, well-lit parking spot for those with private vehicles like Madhuri, the opportunity for the crime would have perhaps been reduced.  “This could have been avoided had the truck drivers been drinking in an area designated to them. There are not enough truck bays and restrooms for them along the highway,” says Bhaskar Reddy Nakula, President, Telangana Lorry Drivers Association. “It’s a 153-km-long ring road and at none of the toll booths are there spaces allocated for truck drivers to park their vehicles. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) should provide designated areas where 200-300 trucks can be parked. Even the land that gets allocated gets taken over by the government for other projects,” says Bhaskar. According to government regulations, “truck lay-byes” should “be located near check barriers, interstate borders, places of conventional stops of the truck operators, etc.” Bhaskar has been writing to the HMDA, the state Road Transport Authority (RTA), and to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways to provide more truck bays for drivers. But there never was any response, he says.  No streetlights, public transport All along the 25-km stretch between where Madhuri was murdered and where she was burnt, there are no streetlamps. The highway is in the dark at night and only lit by car headlights.  Harthosh Singh, a resident of Shadnagar and one of the people who protested before the police station on Saturday demanding speedy justice for Madhuri, points out how the lack of public transport makes it unsafe for women to commute on the stretch. “If women don’t have their own conveyance, the highway becomes quite unsafe. There is a bus stop just 500 metres from where the woman was murdered. But after 6 pm, there are not many buses and no share autos also. At night it is difficult to find public transport along the highway,” he says.   Also Read: Hyderabad vet murder: Accused was caught for no license 2 days before crime, escaped
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