Family of Hathras Victim Wants Court Investigation, Suspension of DM: Priyanka Gandhi | India News

NEW DELHI: After meeting with the family of Hathras’ victim, Congressional Leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday listed her demands, which included a judicial investigation through the Supreme Court and the suspension of the district magistrate.
Congress leaders Rahul gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi met with the family and stated that they will fight to ensure justice is done for the Dalit woman who died after being allegedly gang-raped.
In a series of tweets, Priyanka Gandhi listed some of the demands and questions from the victim’s family.
“Questions from the family of the victim of Hathras – 1. A judicial investigation will be carried out through the Supreme Court. 2. Hathras DM will be suspended and will not be given an important position. Why the body of our daughter he was burned using gasoline without our permission. ”
“4. Why do they repeatedly deceive and threaten us. 5. For the good of humanity, we brought ‘chita se phool’, but how do we think this corpse is our daughter’s?” Priyanka Gandhi tweeted in Hindi. In Hindu tradition, bringing ‘chita se phool’ generally means collecting the remains after cremation.

It is the right of this family to get answers to these questions and the UP government will have to give answers, said the secretary general in charge of Congress, UP.
After meeting the family of the victim, Rahul Gandhi tweeted: “I met the family of victim Hathras and understood their pain. I assured them that we support them in this difficult time and we will give them all the help so that justice is done for them.” .

“The UP government will not be able to act arbitrarily as the whole country is standing up to guarantee justice to the daughter of the country,” he said in the Hindi tweet.
While on his way to Hathras, a great drama unfolded in the national capital. There was a heavy police deployment on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border with barricades on the Delhi-Noida Direct (DND) airway and dozens of police officers deployed.
As swarms of Congressional workers and others jostled each other amid loud honks, slogans and Congressional flags waving in the air, the Gautam Buddh Nagar Police he finally allowed five people, including Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, to go to Hathras.
Congressional workers, some of whom described the incident as “brutal repression,” claimed that police used batons to disperse the crowd.
A video also made the rounds on social media showing Priyanka Gandhi coming to the rescue of party workers standing between them and the police armed with batons.
Several congressional leaders also criticized the UP government for showing “disrespect” to a woman and tagged a photograph in which a police officer was allegedly seen “grabbing” Priyanka Gandhi’s kurta.
There were also some social media posts slamming into Congress over a video in which people were allegedly heard laughing in the car while Priyanka Gandhi was driving a silver Innova with Rahul Gandhi at her side and some people in the back seat.
While several congressional deputies such as Shashi Tharoor, PL Punia, Partap Singh Bajwa, Deepender Hooda, as well as leaders such as Jitin prasada and Sushmita Dev arrived at DND migration route, only a few advanced beyond the border.
Hours earlier, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra alleged that the Yogi Adityanath government was threatening the family of the Hathras victim and claimed that such behavior was not acceptable to the country.
He said that the UP government is “morally corrupt.”
“The victim did not receive treatment, his complaint was not registered on time, his body was forcibly cremated, the family is in captivity, they are being repressed, now they are threatened that they will have to undergo a drug test,” he added. she said in a tweet in Hindi.
“This behavior is not acceptable to the country. Stop threatening the victim’s family,” he said.
On Thursday, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, along with several party leaders and workers, were detained by the police and sent back to Delhi, after they tried to reach Hathras to meet the Dalit woman’s family.
In a morning Hindi tweet using the hashtag ‘Hathrashorror’, Rahul Gandhi said that the behavior of the UP government and police towards the woman and her family “is unacceptable to me. No Indian should accept this.”
He stated that “no power in the world can prevent me from meeting this grieving family in Hathras and sharing their pain.”
The 19-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly raped in a village in Hathras by four men on 14 September. After her condition worsened, she was referred to Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi, where she took her last breath on Tuesday.
She was cremated in the early hours of Wednesday, and her family alleged that local police forced them to perform the last rites in the dead of night.
Local police officers, however, had said that the cremation was carried out “according to the wishes of the family.”