The bodies of four men – accused in the rape and murder of a woman veterinarian – who were killed in an alleged exchange of fire with police on 6 December, were on Tuesday, 10 December, shifted to the state-run Gandhi Hospital from Mahabubnagar district.

"The bodies of the four people were brought here and are preserved in the mortuary of Gandhi Hospital on Tuesday," a senior hospital official told PTI.

The Telangana High Court on Monday directed authorities to preserve their bodies till 13 December and ordered that the bodies can be shifted to Gandhi Hospital if the government hospital at Mahabubnagar does not have the facility to preserve them till that date.