Even as heinous act sparked outrage across India, another charred body of a woman was found near crime spot

Four people have been arrested in connection with the rape and murder of a 27-year old woman veterinarian whose charred body was found in Hyderabad, which has sparked a national outrage.

She was raped before being killed, police said, even as a Telangana Minister stoked a controversy asking why she had not called police immediately. Another charred body of a woman was found near crime spot in Shamshabad on Friday.

The gruesome cold-blooded gang-rape and murder of the vet was planned by a group of lorry drivers the moment she parked her scooter near the Tondupally toll plaza on Wednesday night, police said, after studying the CCTV footage at the toll gates.

The accused have been identified as Mohammed, alias Areef, 26, Jollu Shiva, and Jollu Naveen, both aged about 20, and Chintakunta Chennakesavulu, alias Chenna, 20, all residents of Makthal Mandal in Narayanpet District.

Cyberabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjnar said the drinking men noticed the victim parking her bike near the toll plaza at 6 pm, they discussed and hatched a plan to rape and murder her. As part of the plan, Naveen removed the air from the tyre of the victim’s scooter. When the victim, after finishing her medical work at Gachibowli, returned to toll plaza at 9.18 pm, Areef approached her and told her that her vehicle’s back tyre is punctured and offered to get it repaired through his cleaner Shiva,” said the official.

The victim then called her sister and informed about the puncture and also about the physical features of the accused and told her that she was afraid and her sister advised her to come to the toll plaza and wait.

Meanwhile, Areef, Naveen and Chennakesavulu forcibly took her inside the compound nearby, where Shiva came with with the vehicle. The men then took turns to rape her. Areef gagged her mouth till she died.

“They immediately put her body in the lorry cabin and moved from the place as Shiva and Naveen rode the scooter towards Shadnagar while Areef and Chennakeshavulu took the lorry ahead of them. Shiva and Naveen went to petrol pumps enroute, asking for petrol in a loose bottle and got it from the second petrol pump near Kothur. The gang stopped near JP Dargah crossing and took diesel in a bottle from their lorry, after which they took a u-turn near Shadnagar crossing and stopped on the road above the underpass.

They then carried the body to the underpass by covering it in a blanket and set it afire using a mix of petrol and diesel, added the official.

 After dispersing from the scene, Naveen and Shiva went back to check whether body was  properly burnt and further they stopped after a distance further to dispose the scooter near Kothur. The four men then started their lorry and reached Aramghar crossroads. After leaving Shiva, Naveen and Chennakeshavulu behind, Areef  took the lorry to deliver the load in the city. The case was detected with the help of CCTV analysis and the eyewitnesses and human intelligence. All the four accused persons were arrested on Friday afternoon at Shadnagar by the Cyberabad police.