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a few days ago, the family members of a dalit (formerly known as “untouchable”) girl in india who died after she was gang raped have accused the authorities of forcefully cremating her body in the middle of the night WITHOUT their consent.
a few days ago, the family members of a dalit (formerly known as “untouchable”) girl in india who died after she was gang raped have accused the authorities of forcefully cremating her body in the middle of the night WITHOUT their consent.
the victim who was a 19-year-old from a village in uttar pradesh’s hathras district, 200km (124 miles) from the indian capital new delhi, was raped in a field near her house on september 14 by FOUR suspects belonging to "upper castes" in the hindu religion’s "hierarchy".
officials said that she suffered paralysis due to severe injuries to her spinal cord and died two weeks later in a new delhi hospital on september 29, triggering nationwide outrage, protests and the detention of opposition leaders.
the teenager’s body was cremated in an open field in hathras around 3am on wednesday (21:30 GMT on tuesday) in the presence of nearly two dozen police and other officials WITHOUT the parents present; they cremated her body using petrol which is never used for last rites.
the family said they wanted to see the girl’s face once more before her cremation, but the authorities refused; they saw her face only after post-mortem examination and that was the last they saw of her..
the girl belonged to the dalit community, at the lowest rung of the complex hindu caste hierarchy, which has been subjected to systematic discrimination and violence for CENTURIES. all four men arrested so far in the case belong to the influential thakur community.
the state administration rejected claims the girl’s body was cremated forcefully and without permission, terming them “baseless."
"everything happened with the permission of the family members. there was a risk of a law and order situation getting out of hand in the village (…)
"everything happened with the permission of the family members. there was a risk of a law and order situation getting out of hand in the village (…)
(…) so, we asked the family members for their permission to cremate the body at night and they allowed the same,” brahm singh, told a senior police official.
meanwhile, a senior uttar pradesh police official on thursday declared the victim was NOT EVEN raped because the samples collected from her body did not contain semen. “autopsy report confirmed [that] no sperm was present in the sample. she died due to trauma of her neck injury,”
said, prashant kumar during a news conference in the state capital, lucknow. "how can we ask them to cremate our sister without us being present there? they are making such shameless allegations against us just to save themselves. there is a limit to telling lies," (…)
(…) the victim's brother claimed. in the past week, UP has reported at least 2 other rape cases as anger over the law and order situation in the BJP governed northern state grows. on tuesday, another dalit woman, aged 22, was raped and killed in the state’s Balrampur district.
she too was cremated in the early hours of wednesday. last year, more than 500 Dalit women were raped in UP alone, according to the data provided by india’s national crime records bureau (NCRB), which added that more than 3,500 falit women were raped across the country in 2019.
“in her village, thakurs are in majority. had she belonged to the upper caste, no one would have dared to burn her body in the dead of the night without her family being present there. she was treated like this BECAUSE she was a dalit,” said kush ambedkarwadi a (…)
(…) spokesman for the "bhim army," a group advocating for the rights of dalits.
PLEASE educate yourselves on this matter, i'm begging you. https://justiceforhathrasvictim.carrd.co/
the rushed and forceful cremation in the hathras rape case was in COMPLETE DISREGARD to the family’s wishes. please sign the petition demanding accountability for this apathy: https://act.jhatkaa.org/campaigns/action-against-UP-police?utm_campaign=q7qmbD61Nu&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share
please go through this thread and help us out;; https://twitter.com/tenbunn/status/1312385919769477120?s=19
