Following the incident, outrage was seen from the road to social media. Several opposition parties also attacked the Uttar Pradesh government over the issue. (Reuters)
LIVE updates of the Hathras rape case: The SIT team, which was supposed to present the status report of the case today, has 10 more days by order of Prime Minister Yogi Adityanath.
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Hathras rape case LIVE updates: The 20 FIRs filed in relation to the rape case and the 19-year-old woman’s case will be transferred to CBI, the sources said, adding that this includes the sedition case and the arrest of PFI members.
The main defendant in the case was reportedly in contact with the 19-year-old’s brother until “very recently”. It is said that there were at least 100 exchanges in five months between the mobile number of the main defendant and another number registered in the name of the victim’s brother.
A report in The Times of India stated that the investigators investigating the case made the claims based on a Call Detail Record (CDR), which also showed that there were five hours of exchange between the two numbers between October 2019 and March 2020. Some of the calls lasted more than a few minutes.
the TOI The report indicated that the police now plan to seek the response of the victim’s brother to confirm that it is his voice.
Facing a beating of its image, the Uttar Pradesh government told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that it wanted a supreme court-supervised CBI investigation into the Hathras episode, which the SC described as horrific. The day also marked the first visit by a Union minister to the village of Hathras by the 19-year-old Dalit woman who was allegedly gang-raped by four upper-caste men on September 14 and died 15 days later in a hospital in Delhi.
RPI workers and I across the country will make every effort to bring justice to the victim’s family, “tweeted Ramdas Athawale, who heads the Republican Party of India (A) and is a Dalit leader. Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) also met with the family, the latest in a series of visits by opposition leaders to the UP village about 150 km from the national capital.
The young woman was cremated in the middle of the night in her village and the rushed funeral, allegedly without the family’s consent, sparked further outrage. In raising questions about the place of an unrelated party in a criminal case, the court observed: “We are not saying anything about the incident. The incident is horrible, shocking and extraordinary, but how can we hear identical arguments from so many lawyers?” . “
Here are all the latest updates on the Hathras rape case:
* The SIT team, which was supposed to present the status report on the case today, has 10 more days on the orders of Prime Minister Yogi Adityanath.
* After questions were raised about the safety of the victim’s family, metal detecting gates were installed outside her home in Hathras village. The time of entry and exit of all visitors is also noted.
* At a meeting of its newly appointed national officials chaired by party chair JP Nadda on Tuesday, the BJP targeted the opposition and said it deals with cases selectively. It’s sad when people choose a crime by looking at who is in power and which community the murderers or rapists belong to, what is the vote bank there, Secretary General Dushyant Kumar Gautam told reporters in an apparent attack on opposition parties .
* However, the opposition continued to attack the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh. After meeting with the victim’s family, CPI (M) Secretary General Sitaram Yechury expressed shock at the alleged gangrape and the speedy cremation.
* These kinds of things are unheard of in the 21st century and are a flagrant violation of the Indian Constitution and the guarantees it gives to our people, “he said. The left-wing delegation included CPI Secretary General D Raja, a member of the Politburo of the CPI (M) Brinda Karat, the national secretary of the CPI, Amarjeet Kaur, the secretary of the state committee of the CPI (M) UP, Hiralal Yadav, and the secretary of state of the CPI UP, Girish Sharma.
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