Amidst the clamour and cheers over the reported encounter of four accused in the rape and murder of the Hyderabad veterinarian, investigation officials in the infamous Hajipur serial rape-murders which took place between 2015 and 2019, claimed that the trial of the accused M Srinivas Reddy is seeing significant progress.
Earlier in April, police arrested Srinivas on charges of raping and murdering three minor girls while they were investigating a missing case of one of the deceased girls. Srinivas was also accused in the rape and murder of another woman besides the three minors.
Speaking to TNM, ACP Bhongir and Investigation Officer Bhujanga Rao said, "All the evidences and DNA samples that match with the accused have been handed over to the fast-track trial court. We can say that the trial will end soon and the court will convict the accused."
While the accused Srinivas Reddy is in Warangal Central Jail, the trial in the case began in the last week of October before a local fast track court in Nalgonda.
During the course of the investigation, police found out that Srinivas had killed two other minor girls from the same village after raping them, and disposed of the bodies by burying them in an abandoned well.
In July, months after unearthing the cases, police filed three separate chargesheets and submitted forensic lab reports, technical evidences and eyewitness accounts to the court as part of the evidence.
Meanwhile, the parents of the deceased girls are demanding "justice" similar to what was meted out to the accused in the Hyderabad vet rape and murder.