All the four men accused in the brutal rape and murder of a veterinary doctor in Hyderabad have been killed in an encounter on National Highway-44. According to reports, the four accused in police custody were being taken to the site of the incident to reconstruct the entire scene.
According to the police, one of the accused hatched a plan to attack the police in a bid to escape and asked the others to attack them. Once they reached the site where the incident took place, they tried to attack the police and the police retaliated. The bodies of the accused are being taken to a local hospital. More details are awaited from the police. Four men, all lorry workers, aged between 20 and 24, were arrested on November 29 on charges of raping and killing the veterinarian and had been sent to judicial custody for 14 days.