Nand Kishor Gurjar, a lawmaker from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday called on Governor Anandiben Patel to take action against officials, who he said had denied the family of the Hathras gang rape victim the right to perform their last rites.
Gurjar, who represents the Loni assembly constituency of Ghaziabad, near the national capital, Delhi, said police had hastily performed the 19-year-old woman’s last rites in violation of Hindus’ religious beliefs not to incinerate. to the dead after sunset.
The family of the 19-year-old Dalit victim had alleged that the UP police had forced them to perform their last rites in the stealth of the night. Police said they had the consent of the relatives. Opposition parties have criticized the Yogi Adityanath government for the hasty cremation, arguing that it was meant to suppress the protests.
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Gurjar claimed that a ‘political union’ was working together with officials to paint the BJP as anti-Dalit and the administration’s decision to incinerate the woman after midnight was part of this conspiracy.
“Everything seems to be the work of high officials from Lucknow to Hathras to smear the image of the government. It simply cannot happen that such acts that go against the spirit of ‘sanatana dharma’, of not cremating the dead at night and denying the family the right to even lend a shoulder to their daughter’s coffin, are permitted without it. consent of senior officials such as UP DGP and others, “said the legislator in a letter to the governor.
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“The unfortunate incident in Balrampur also appears to be the work of this union that he had informed the prime minister about in the past,” he said, demanding that the officials be tried for murder and the cases against them in fast-track court.
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