Supreme Court orders a Judicial investigation in Telangana encounter

The top
court orders a judicial investigation into the Hyderabad encounter linked to
the veterinarian gangrape and murder case, Former SC Judge Justice Sirpurkar to
head the probe commission, report to be submitted in 6 months.

The Supreme
Court has appointed a three-member inquiry commission to inquire into the
encounter killing of the four accused in the Telangana gang-rape and murder
case.

The
commission headed by former apex court judge V S Sirpurkar also includes former
Bombay High Court judge Rekha Sondur Baldota and ex-CBI director D R
Karthikeyan.

The
commission will submit its report to the Supreme Court in six months and
security to the commission shall be provided by the CRPF.

A bench
headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde stayed proceedings pending in the Telangana
High Court and the NHRC in the case and persue an SIT report into the case,
saying no other authority shall inquire into the matter pending before the
commission of inquiry till further orders.

At the
outset the bench was of the view that there should be impartial inquiry into
encounter deaths of the four accused.