Late but right step came: Jaya Bachchan on Hyderabad Police encounter

"It has come late but it is a right step," Bachchan, a Samajwadi Party MP in Rajya Sabha, told media while entering Parliament.

Days ago in Rajya Sabha, she had said, "May be it will be harsh but I think rapists should be brought out in public and lynched."

Amid nationwide protests, the police on Friday said that all the four accused in the Hyderabad veterinary doctor's gangrape and murder case were killed in an encounter at Chatanpally in Shadnagar here early on Friday early morning.

Cyberabad Police Commissioner V C Sajjanar while confirming the encounter told UNI it happened between 3 am and 6 am. 

Police sources told the news agency the accused tried to flee when they were taken to Chatnapally where the charred body of Priyanka Reddy- the dead victim- was found, to reconstruct the scene of the crime.

The sources said the accused hurled stones on police and reportedly snatched the weapons from the police and started firing on the them.

In the self-defence, police shot dead all the four accused--Mohammed Areef, Jollu Shiva, Naveen, Chintakunta Chennakeshavulu. 

The encounter took place close to the spot where the accused allegedly torched the body of Priyanka after raping her.

The gruesome gangrape and murder case had sparked nation-wide protests as the people came out to the streets to demand justice for the victim.

On Nov 28, the men, lorry drivers and cleaners, saw the woman park her scooter near a toll-booth. They allegedly punctured a tyre of the scooter and waited for the return of the victim.

When she returned, they pretended to help her, forcibly taken her and gang-raped at a deserted spot, strangled her and burnt her body to destroy evidence, according to police.

However, an official statement from police on the encounter is yet to be given.