Hatras:A 19-year-old dalit girl was allegedly gang-raped by four accused who also tried to strangulate her to conceal the crime here has succumb to her inujries
Earlier, The girl was admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) in Aligarh medical college. She managed to give her statement to the police days after the incident and has stated that she was raped by four upper caste men on September 14 when she had gone to collect fodder for animals.
Earlier, based on her brother's complaint, the police had booked a man identified as Sandeep for attempt to murder and under the provisions of the SC/ST Act.
The accused was arrested and remanded to judicial custody after the family alleged that he had tried to kill the girl over some old enmity. However, after the victim regained her conscious and gave statement to the police, rape charges were added to the FIR and three more people were booked."One more accused has been held and others, too, will be arrested soon," Hathras SP Vikrant Vir, said here on Thursday.
Additional SP Prakash Kumar said the girl's statement under section 161 of CrPC was not recorded earlier by the investigating officer as the girl had been in the ICU after she was referred to Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College in Aligarh from Hathras district hospital. He said the charge sheet would be filed soon.
UP Congress MLC Deepak Singh also met the survivor and alleged that the family was being threatened by the accused as well as the police. He said that he would give a detailed report on the matter to party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi.
Congress leader Sheoraj Jivan Valmiki, who also reached Hathras on Wednesday to meet the survivor's family members, has demanded action against police officers for delay in recording the statement, adding that injustice to the members of the Dalit community would not be tolerated.
Oppn slams UP govt over death of gang-rape Dalit victim in Hathras
Lucknow:Opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh were up in arms over the death of a Dalit girl who was gang-raped in Hathras, accusing the Yogi Adityanath government of failing to protect the women in the state.The 19-year-old Dalit girl, who was raped by four men in Hathras district, died on Tuesday morning in New Delhi, sources said.
She was shifted to AIIMS, Delhi, a day earlier after her condition showed no signs of improvement.The woman was gangraped a fortnight ago, following which she was admitted to the AMU's Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital. The accused had also tried to kill her by strangling her as she resisted their attempts.
Hathras Superintendent of Police Vikrant Vir had said the 19-year-old girl had gone to the fields with her mother on September 14 and went missing soon after. The teenager was later found brutally injured, with her tongue having a serious cut as she bit it while the accused attempted to strangulate her, according to the officer.
The girl was put on ventilator thereafter while her limbs the her legs and arms had been completely paralysed and partially respectively.
After her family members expressed their desire to take her to Delhi, she was referred to AIIMS on Monday morning. But she succumbed to her injury on Tuesday morning.Congress' UP in charge Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attacked the Yogi Adityanath government over crime against women, saying that the accused were still roaming around freely.
Ms Vadra tweeted on Tuesday that "After fighting for 2 weeks, the girl succumbed to her injuries. The state is shaken with rapes at Shahjahanpur, Gorakhpur and Hathras".
"The government should punish the guilty one soon," she demanded.On the other hand, the Samajwadi Party spokesperson Sunil Singh Sajan said that the incident has exposed the law and order situation in the state.
"The incident and death of the Dalit girl from Hathras is a matter of shame. The girl was brutally assaulted but the police had registered a case of only eve teasing as the accused belonged to the same caste of which the state head also belongs to. When the pressure mounted, the police were forced to include the relevant sections in the case. Today the girl has succumbed and the sole responsibility lies with the CM of the state. There is a nexus between the criminals and those sitting in power, such incidents like Hathras bring all of us to shame," Mr Sajan said.
Bollywood actors too expressed anger over the incident. While Kangana Ranaut demanded capital punishment for the rapists, Richa Chadha said that more than the word 'Dalit', brutality of assault should trigger people.
"Shoot these rapists publicly, what is the solution to these gang rapes that are growing in numbers every year? What a sad and shameful day for this country. Shame on us we failed our daughters," Ms Ranaut tweeted.
Bhim Army's Chandrashekhar Azad, who managed to dodge the Uttar Police police on Sunday and reached JN Medical College in Aligarh to meet the rape victim, too demanded that she be shifted to the All India Institute of Medical Science and a compensation of Rs one crore be paid to her family.
The Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) has been deployed at the house of the victim. All four accused, identified as Sandeep, Lavkush, Ramu and Ravi, were arrested and Kotwali in-charge in Hathras was removed and sent to police lines.BSP chief Mayawati also tweeted targeting the state government over the gang rape of the woman.
"A Dalit girl in UP's Hathras district was severely beaten up and then she was gang-raped, which is extremely-shameful and extremely-condemnable," Mayawati tweeted in Hindi. "Even daughters and sisters from other sections of society are not safe in the state. The government must pay attention towards it. This is the demand of the BSP," she added.(UNI)
