Members of various organizations during a protest against the Hathras case in Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Friday. (PTI)
Hathras Case, Protests Live Updates:
There is increased security in Hathras following the brutal assault and alleged killing of a Dalit woman by four upper caste men. The victim had succumbed to her injuries on September 29 and was hastily cremated by the police in the dead of the night of September 30. More than 300 Uttar Pradesh Police personnel, 17 police vehicles and five barricades are deployed in the village.
In town, the 19-year-old’s family told The Indian Express that they had been locked inside their home for two days and that authorities may be monitoring their phones. “DM-ji aaye aur kaha ki jab media yahan nahin to aapke video kaise viral ho rahe hain (The district magistrate came and said that when the media was not allowed in, how were our videos going viral),” he said the brother, in a short and hasty telephone conversation. “Lagta hai unhone call detail pe laga diye (It seems they are listening to our phones)”.
The first barricades are about 2.5 km from the village, located in the Hathras district, blocking three entrances. It is in one of these that Trinamool Congressional MPs Derek O’Brien, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Pratima Mandal and former MP Mamata Thakur collided with a wall of police and district officials on Friday.
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