Hyderabad | Jagran News Desk: The Telangana police on Saturday suspended three of its personnel after protests erupted across the state over the alleged rape and murder of the 26-year-old veterinarian who charred body was found earlier this week.
Cyberabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar on Staurday said that the three personnel have been placed under suspension till further orders for dereliction of duty.
“Sub-inspector M Ravi Kumar and head constables P Venu Gopal Reddy and A Sathyanarayana Goud were placed under suspension till further orders based on the findings of a detailed enquiry,” news agency ANI quoted Cyberabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar as saying.
Here are ten things you need to know:
* The four accused in the case have been sent to judicial custody for 14 days. The executive magistrate passed the order at Shadnagar police station, where they were lodged, as they could not be produced before court following the presence of a restive crowd in front of the station demanding that the accused be handed over to them.
* Hundreds of people, demanding death penalty for the accused, staged a protests outside the Shadnagar police station -- where the accused were held -- on Saturday. Protests were held by different student groups and others at various places in the state, demanding tough punishment to the accused.
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* “It is not enough if they are taken to court. They should be handed out the same treatment what they had done to the victim,” news agency PTI quoted a protestor as saying.
* Meanwhile, a police source told PTI that they had to use mild force to control the crowd. The source added that the protestors hurled stones at the police vehicle when as the accused were being taken to a jail in Hyderabad.
* The police have also been accused by the victim’s family for wasting time and told National Commission for Women (NCW) chief Rekha Sharma that the police played a ‘negative’ role in the case.
* “We have a judicial system which will be followed. But it should not be delayed and nothing less than 'hang till death'. They should be hanged and the case should go in fast track court,” ANI quoted NCW Chairperson Rekha Sharma as saying.
* Politicians across the country have also expressed their and Telangana Congress president and MP N Uttam Kumar Reddy has demanded that the state government reduce sale of liquor.
* "Got goosebumps after reading chilling details of the atrocities done on the young woman. We need to take stock of where our society is headed? We should be ashamed that we cannot even give our daughters security. There's a dire need of character-building in our society, as suggested by Gandhiji. We need to build a society that is free of any sort of greed," said Harivansh Narayan Singh, Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha.
* Many Bollywood celebrities have also expressed their shock and anger over the incident. They took to their social media accounts to berate the monstrous incident.
* The 26-year-old veterinarian was raped before being killed by the four accused on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Thursday night. The police, who arrested the all the accused on Friday, said that that the men had also tried to forcibly make the woman drink alcohol.