Seven Other 'Encounters' Suggest Telangana Police Is Using a Rehearsed Script

'Those killed in the 'encounters' range from perpetrators of violence against women to suspected Maoists... Early on Friday morning, news broke that the Telangana police had shot and killed the four suspects in the rape-and-murder case of a Hyderabad veterinarian in an ‘encounter’. News reports said that the police had taken the suspects – Areef, Shiva, Naveen and Chennakeshavulu – to the scene of crime for “crime reconstruction”. There, they allegedly tried to “attack the police and escape”, when the police opened fire in “self-defence”. For many eagle-eyed observers, the ‘encounter’ bore a stark resemblance to two previous incidents: one from a decade ago in the united Andhra Pradesh state and another from 2015, after the formation of Telangana...'