The body of the 20-year-old Dalit girl, who died at a Delhi hospital on Tuesday after she was gang-raped by 4 higher caste males, was cremated by the police and district administration of Hathras round 3am on Wednesday towards the needs of the household.
The girl’s members of the family stated the police forcibly carried out the final rites early morning time despite the fact that they wish to deliver body her residence once last time and want’s to cremate her in the morning as per customs.
The girl had died at Delhi’s Safdarjung hospital on Tuesday, two weeks after she was attacked brutally whereas serving to her mom within the fields. She had suffered a number of fractures, paralysis and a gash in her tongue within the horrific assault.
But the household’s horror didn’t finish there, as a high-handed police power whisked away her physique from the hospital round midnight with out informing the household. The dad and mom and the brothers of the sufferer had been in Delhi when the UP police introduced her for cremation to Hathras, 200 km away from the nationwide capital.
Bhuri Singh, the uncle of the deceased, said that police pressured kin to carry out the final rites in the midst of the night time.
“The parents and brothers of the victim were not present on the spot, they were in Delhi and did not even arrive by the time the body reached the village. When we asked not to perform the last rites at night and wait for the family, the police said that if you do not do it, we will do it ourselves,” he stated.
The police has claimed that the cremation of the woman was carried out by the family members. Superintendent of Police (SP) Vikrant Veer denied any “urgency” by police in cremation despite the fact that cremation usually do not take place in night.
Prem Prakash Meena, the Joint Magistrate of Hathras, told news agency ANI, “The last rites of the victim have been performed. Police and administration will ensure that the perpetrators of the crime are brought to justice.”
All four attackers, upper caste men from the woman’s village, are in jail. They will now also be charged with murder.
The UP police is under scrutiny over alleged lapses throughout the case, and the inexplicable rush in cremation has further added to anger and confusion in the village.
After the death of the victim, all the political parties fiercely targeted the government. The Bhim Army reached Safdarjung Hospital and started a sit-in demonstration. In many districts of the state, people took out a candle march in support of the victim and pleaded for justice.
Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday morning tweeted, “A daughter of India is raped, facts are suppressed, and in the end the right to funeral is also taken away from her family. It is abusive and unjust.”
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra termed the cremation by police and district administration against the wishes of the family as inhuman. “The government did not protect her while she was alive. The government did not provide timely treatment when she was attacked. After the death of the victim, the government took the last rites of the daughter from the family. Gross inhumanity,” she said.
