Talasani Srinivas Yadav

Worrying visuals of hundreds of people, most without masks and social distancing, have emerged from Hyderabad, where the Telangana government is celebrating the Bonalu festival.

A senior Telangana minister on Saturday justified the alleged extrajudicial killing of four accused in the murder-cum-rape case of a veterinarian in the state, saying that anybody who commits a crime so cruel can expect to be eliminated in a police encounter.

Worrying visuals of hundreds of people, most without masks and social distancing, have emerged from Hyderabad, where the Telangana government is celebrating the Bonalu festival.

A senior Telangana minister on Saturday justified the alleged extrajudicial killing of four accused in the murder-cum-rape case of a veterinarian in the state, saying that anybody who commits a crime so cruel can expect to be eliminated in a police encounter.