Second postmortem of Hyderabad rape accused by AIIMS team takes place today

IIMS has
formed a team of three forensic doctors to conduct the second autopsy on the
bodies of four men accused of gang-rape and murder of a woman veterinarian near
Hyderabad, who were killed in an alleged encounter on Dec 6.

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The team
will be led by Dr Sudhir Gupta, head of forensic at AIIMS, have Dr Adarsh Kumar
and Dr Abhishek Yadav as members. Dr Varun Chandra will assist the team in the
post-mortem examination.

The team
will conduct the second autopsy in the mortuary of the state-run Gandhi
Hospital in Hyderabad today, an AIIMS communique to Telangana special chief
secretary stated.

“The
medical board will depart for Telangana on Dec 22 and 5.15 pm and will be
coming back on Dec 23,” a source said.

The
Telangana High Court had directed authorities to conduct a second postmortem on
the bodies of the four accused. The bodies have been kept at Gandhi Hospital as
per an earlier order of the high court, after pleas were filed alleging
extra-judicial killing of the men and claiming it was a fake encounter.

A division
bench directed that the autopsy be conducted before Dec 23 and the report be
submitted to the Registrar General of the high court.

After the
postmortem, the bodies can be handed over to the families of the four men. The
doctors were advised to express an independent view on the basis of the
evidence collected by them.

The four
accused were arrested on Nov 29 for allegedly raping and killing the woman
veterinarian and burning her body. The case ignited widespread protests across
the country.

On Dec 6,
they were gunned down by police at Chattanpalli when they were taken to the
site of the offence for reconstruction of the crime scene for investigation.

The first
post mortem was conducted on Dec 6, the day the four men were killed, in a
state-run hospital in Mahabubnagar from where the bodies were shifted to Gandhi
Hospital.