HYDERABAD: Casting serious aspersions on the police action, families of the four accused on Friday said grave injustice had been done to them. They said it was wrong on the part of the cops to kill the four men in a fake encounter. The families said their sons should have been kept in jail and given punishment as deemed fit by court.

Renuka, 17-year-old wife of Ch Chennakesavulu, 20, one of the accused, was crestfallen. She wailed: “It is unjust to kill four persons for the murder of one person. Take me to the same place and kill me too. I cannot live without him. I want to die.”

Renuka, who is in her early months of pregnancy, said police personnel picked up her husband with a promise that he would be brought back after questioning.

“Is it necessary that my husband had to be killed when several people who commit similar crimes are in jails and being fed well,” she sought to know. Renuka has no parents.

Chennakasavulu’s mother Jayamma was livid. “What was the urgency in killing him? The cops should have shown him to us for one last time if they intended to kill him,” she said.

Chennakesavulu from Gudigandla village of Makthal block in Narayanpet district was the only one among the four accused who was married.

Main accused Mohammed Areef’s mother Maula Bi was inconsolable. “They have killed my son. This is unfair,” she cried in her Jaklair village home. With villagers by her side, she said police had done a wrong thing by killing her son.

Another accused Jollu Shiva ’s father Ramappa questioned the encounter theory of the police and said the details seem sketchy.

“They killed my son. Now, let them kill everyone across the country who committed the same crime. I do not approve of the crime my son had committed but let everyone get the same punishment,” he told reporters.

The fourthe accused, Jollu Naveen’s family refused to talk to mediapersons at all about the killing of their son in an encounter.

