<p>As the outrage over the Hyderabad rape-murder case continues to grow in the country, with common people and politicians seeking death for the accused, eminent filmmaker Aparna Sen wondered if hanging the perpetrators would lead to a substantial fall in number of such crimes.</p>.<p>Sen's comments were made in the wake of Rajya Sabha MPs demanding death penalty, lynching and castration as punishment for the four accused in the case.</p>.<p>"The perpetrators of (Hyderabad woman's) rape and murder will probably be hanged. The whole country is baying for their blood, and with due cause.</p>.<p>"It is the most horrific of crimes. But then what? There won't be any more rapes? The rate of rape will substantially decrease?" she tweeted on Monday.</p>.<p>On Facebook and Twitter, netizens have also sought public hanging, mutilation and castration for rape-murder convicts. A section of women suggested that polls be boycotted, if swift punishment was not meted out to rapists.</p>.<p>The charred body of a 25-year old woman, who worked as an assistant veterinarian at a state-run hospital, was found under a culvert in Shadnagar in Hyderabad on November 28, a day after she went missing.</p>.<p>Four men, aged between 20 and 24, were arrested on November 29 on charges of raping and killing the woman and had been sent to judicial custody for 14 days. </p>
<p>As the outrage over the Hyderabad rape-murder case continues to grow in the country, with common people and politicians seeking death for the accused, eminent filmmaker Aparna Sen wondered if hanging the perpetrators would lead to a substantial fall in number of such crimes.</p>.<p>Sen's comments were made in the wake of Rajya Sabha MPs demanding death penalty, lynching and castration as punishment for the four accused in the case.</p>.<p>"The perpetrators of (Hyderabad woman's) rape and murder will probably be hanged. The whole country is baying for their blood, and with due cause.</p>.<p>"It is the most horrific of crimes. But then what? There won't be any more rapes? The rate of rape will substantially decrease?" she tweeted on Monday.</p>.<p>On Facebook and Twitter, netizens have also sought public hanging, mutilation and castration for rape-murder convicts. A section of women suggested that polls be boycotted, if swift punishment was not meted out to rapists.</p>.<p>The charred body of a 25-year old woman, who worked as an assistant veterinarian at a state-run hospital, was found under a culvert in Shadnagar in Hyderabad on November 28, a day after she went missing.</p>.<p>Four men, aged between 20 and 24, were arrested on November 29 on charges of raping and killing the woman and had been sent to judicial custody for 14 days. </p>