"HAPPY WITH THE PUNISHMENT BUT WE DIE EVERYDAY" NIRBHAYA'S MOTHER EMOTIONAL STATEMENT ON HYDERABAD VET RAPE, MURDER ACCUSED'S ENCOUNTER

Hours after Telangana Police claimed to have shot all the four accused in connection with the gang-rape and murder of veterinary doctor, the parents of Nirbhaya congratulated the city police for their quick action to the case. 

As per NDTV reports, all the four accused were taken to the place, where they had allegedly burned the body of the 26-year-old veterinarian after committing the crime on November 27. They were asked to reconstruct the sequence of events as part of the investigation. 

During that bid, the accused tried to escape; they also tried to snatch the weapons of the policemen after which they were shot dead, NDTV further reported. 

"I would like to thank the police. I am very happy with the kind of punishment they have got. The police have set an example. The police have done a very good job. There should be no action against the police. Criminals need to be scared of the police. We need this kind of punishment for criminals these days," Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi told news agency ANI.

"For seven years I have been waiting, going from court to court, making rounds of lower court asking to hang them, but the court said they also have human rights, can't hang them. But it's needed today," Asha Devi said.

"Something has changed today with the action by the Telangana Police. I am very happy," she added.

Meanwhile, Nirbhaya's father Badrinath Singh was glad over the decision stating that happy with the encounter as parents of the Telangana woman won't have to go through all that we went. 

"Am happy with the encounter because our daughter's rapist is still alive and we die everyday. At least the parents of the Telangana woman won't have to go through this... It would have been worse for the Telangana Police if the accused had escaped. They did a good job," he told ANI.