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Don't Rush to Condemn: Shashi Tharoor on Telangana Encounter

  • Talking about the encounter of the 4 accused in the rape and murder of Telangana vet Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said that people should not rush to condemn.
     
  • Tharoor was replying to a tweet in which a journalist pointed out about the encounter incident to be a possible case of 'extrajudicial killing'.
     
  • He tweeted, "Agree in principle. We need to know more, for instance, if the criminals were armed, the police may have been justified in opening fire preemptively."

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  • He further tweeted, "Until details emerge we should not rush to condemn. But extra-judicial killings are otherwise unacceptable in a society of laws." 
     
  • Let us tell you that the accused were killed by the police when they tried to escape while being taken to the crime spot.

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