Shaik Riyaz Family Urges DGP to Conduct Fair Inquiry 'Encounter'

The family of rowdy sheeter Shaik Riyaz, who was killed in an ‘encounter’ at the Nizamabad government hospital, met Telangana director general of police (DGP), B Shivadhar Reddy in Hyderabad and urged him to conduct a fair inquiry.

Riyaz’s mother alleged that the police killed her son in a fake encounter to cover their misdeeds.

She claimed that members of her family were taken to a womens’ police



station and beaten with leather bats and had chilli powder in their eyes as well as their private parts. 

They also complained that police officers tortured Riyaz’s children.

Riyaz, who had over 30 cases registered against him, fatally stabbed a Nizamabad police constable, E Pramod and escaped. He was caught two days later but shot dead at the Nizamabad Government Hospital during the routine medical checkup.