A four-year-old girl was reportedly raped by her relative in Sasni, in Hathras of Uttar Pradesh, on Tuesday.
Police said the defendant has been arrested. “A case has been registered,” the ANI news agency said, citing circle official Ruchi Gupta.
The incident comes a month after a 19-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by four men in Hathras. She was rushed to a hospital in Aligarh but was transferred to Delhi for lack of better medical care.
The woman succumbed to her injuries in hospital days later.
The incident sparked protests across the country, and the Allahabad High Court learned of it suo motu. On Monday he held a hearing in which he lashed out at the police and district administration for cremating the woman’s body at night.
The court said the act was a “violation” of her human rights, adding that the victim had at least the right to a decent cremation in accordance with her religious customs and rituals that essentially must be performed by her family.
Meanwhile, the state government recommended that the investigation be transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The request was accepted by the Ministry of the Interior of the Union and CBI took over the investigation.
On Tuesday, an agency team visited the site in Hathras where the victim of the alleged gang rape was cremated on September 30. Samples from the site were collected as part of the agency’s ongoing investigation.
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