Police fatally shoot four men suspected of raping and killing a woman in southern India.
The Associated PressPolice 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 police brought the suspects to help them locate evidence, including the victim's phone, Sajjanar said at a news conference. The woman's death is the latest gruesome case of sexual violence against women to rile India and comes despite efforts to strengthen the penalties for such crimes. Some advocates say those efforts have failed to deter predators.
After the veterinarian's killing, Swati Maliwal, the head of the Delhi Commission for Women, started an indefinite hunger strike, demanding that the perpetrators be hanged within six months.She said she is continuing her fast to demand swift hangings in other sexual violence cases because she thinks capital punishment will act as a deterrent.
The National Commission on Human Rights, an autonomous body within India's Parliament, said it was sending a fact-finding mission to the crime scene. Maneka Gandhi, a lawmaker from India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and a former Cabinet minister, accused police of taking the law into their own hands.
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