Indian Police Kill 4 Suspects in Custody for Gang Rape and Murder That Sparked National Protests
(SHADNAGAR, India) — Police on Friday fatally shot four men being held on suspicion of raping and killing a woman in southern India after investigators took them to the crime scene, drawing both praise and condemnation in a case that has sparked protests across the country.
The burned body of the woman—a 27-year-old veterinarian—was found last week by a passer-by near the city of Hyderabad, India’s tech hub, after she went missing the previous night.
At around 3 a.m. Friday, police took the suspects, who had not been formally charged with any crime, to the sites where the rape and killing are believed to have taken place and the spot in an underpass where the woman’s body was burned about half a kilometer (a third of a mile) away, said V.C. Sajjanar, the local police commissioner.
The police brought the suspects to help them locate evidence, including the victim’s phone, Sajjanar said at a news conference.
“The suspects seized some weapons from policemen who had taken them there an..