All Hyderabad vet rape case accused shot dead by police; reactions pour in

The father and the sister of the woman veterinarian said they were very happy and thanked the Telangana government and police.

All four accused in the rape-and-murder of a 25-year-old woman veterinarian last month were killed by police on Friday morning, triggering a chorus of praise for what many saw as speedy justice but also raising concerns over extra-judicial executions.

The incident took place around 6.30 am when the accused, lorry workers aged between 20 and 24, were taken to the scene of the crime near Hyderabad for a reconstruction of events as part of the investigation, a senior police official said.

“They (accused) snatched weapons from police and fired on police and tried to escape… police fired in retaliation in which the four accused died,” a senior police official told PTI. Two policemen were also injured, he said. The four men were arrested on November 29 for allegedly raping and killing the woman by smothering her and later burning her body, an incident that led to widespread outrage and recalled the horrors of the December 16, 2012 gangrape and murder of a physiotherapy intern in Delhi.

They were remanded to seven days’ judicial custody. News of the ‘encounter’ killing led to celebrations in some quarters and concern in others. The father and the sister of the woman veterinarian said they were very happy and thanked the Telangana government and police. “We watched on TV that they were killed in an encounter. We are very happy. Even people are happy. I thank the Telangana government and police for the encounter. I thank everyone who stood by us,” the father told the media….Read More

Facebook and Twitter are getting sucked into India-Pak information battle

With a combined population of 1.5 billion, India and Pakistan are hot growth markets for Facebook and Twitter

Current Affairs: Pakistani online networking campaigner Hanzala Tayyab leads around 300 ultra-patriot digital warriors battling a web war with curve enemy India, in a fight that is progressively sucking in worldwide tech mammoths, for example, Twitter and Facebook. Tayyab, 24, goes through his days on Facebook and encoded WhatsApp chatrooms sorting out individuals from his Pakistan Cyber Force gathering to advance enemies of India substance and influence it to circulate around the web, including on Twitter where he has in excess of 50,000 supporters.

That ranges from featuring claimed Indian human rights maltreatment to lionizing radicals engaging Indian security powers in Kashmir, a questioned Himalayan district at the core of notable pressures among Pakistan and India. Pakistani web based life campaigner Hanzala Tayyab leads around 300 ultra-patriot digital warriors battling a web war with curve enemy India, in a fight that is progressively sucking in worldwide tech monsters, for example, Twitter and Facebook.

Tayyab, 24, goes through his days on Facebook and scrambled WhatsApp chatrooms sorting out individuals from his Pakistan Cyber Force gathering to advance enemies of India substance and influence it to become a web sensation, including on Twitter where he has in excess of 50,000 adherents. That ranges from featuring affirmed Indian human rights maltreatment to lionizing agitators doing combating Indian security powers in Kashmir, a debated Himalayan district at the core of notable pressures among Pakistan and India.

Tayyab’s activity wound up more diligently on Monday when the Pakistan Cyber Force’s Facebook account was brought down, one of 103 Pakistani records the online networking goliath said it had erased as a result of “inauthentic conduct” and spamming. Some Indian patriot accounts have likewise been suspended as of late.