New Delhi, Oct 01 2020: Congress leader Rahul gandhi and sister Priyanka gandhi will visit in UP Hathras today to meet victim family. 20-years old woman who died after being gang-raped. The woman died on Tuesday at a hospital in Delhi.
She had suffered multiple fractures, paralysis and had been left struggling to breathe by a neck injury when she was assaulted by four upper caste men from her village on September 14. The police said there was a gash in her tongue because she had bitten it when the men were trying to strangle her. To add to the family’s pain, the UP police took away her body, drove to her village in Hathras and cremated the body forcibly, with the family locked in their home. The woman’s parents had begged to be allowed to take her body back home and perform the last rite the following morning.
The woman’s family alleged that the police had been slow to respond to their complaint and the administration had been negligent because they belong to the Dalit or underprivileged castes.
