HATHRAS: The Town of UP’s Hathras where the 19-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly gang-raped before she died was out of the reach of the media and politicians for the second day in a row. Many of those who tried to enter and approach the grieving family were abused, pushed to the ground and forced to leave on Friday.
Later in the evening, based on what the SIT suggested in its preliminary report, CM Yogi Adityanath suspended Hathras SP Vikrant Veer, three policemen stationed at Chanda Police Station at the time of the incident: Sadabad Circle Officer Ram Shabd, Police Station Officer Dinesh Kumar Verma and Deputy Inspector Jagveer Singh, along with Chief Moharrir (employee) Mahesh Pal. Shamli SP Vineet Jaiswal will take over from Hathras SP.
The SIT recommended polygraph and drug tests for everyone involved in the case: police, the accused and the victim’s family.
There is a main access point to the village and a tertiary route from behind the farmland that leads to a cluster of Dalit houses. Both were entrenched, with six police officers in one and 15 in another. The police stopped a TOI The team entered the village around 11 am, warning against “moving further” and saying they had “strict instructions from higher authorities” not to let anyone pass.
Six policemen, including three female police officers from Kasganj, were stationed there, with several police and government vehicles parked a few meters away. The police also detained another reporter from a news channel, forced her into a police jeep and left her and the cameraman accompanying her outside of town.
A four-member Trinamool team: MPs Derek O’Brien, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Pratima Mondal and the former deputy Mamata Thakur, who were approaching the town, encountered similar resistance. Around noon, approximately 1.5 km from the village, O’Brien was seen being pushed to the ground by Joint Magistrate Prem Prakash Meena in a video that went viral. “The country is not safe for women. Your honor is in jeopardy. We just wanted to meet the victim’s family, ”said a Trinamool representative.
The police attributed this to the need to allow the investigation. “Access to the media has been banned so that the SIT investigation is not hampered. Cross-examination is on, statements are being recorded. We will allow entry only after the investigation is over, ”Hathras’s additional SP Prakash Kumar said. “However, politicians will not be allowed due to the situation of law and order. They will only be allowed in after the administration deems the situation normal. “Later in the evening, ADG (Agra area) Ajay Anand said that the media could be allowed in on Saturday. registered statements of relatives and other people ”.
The three-member SIT had been created on Wednesday. He stayed in the village for more than 48 hours and recorded statements from more than 100 people. No action has been taken against Hathras district magistrate Praveen Laxkar, who was allegedly heard “threatening” the family on video, confirmed additional chief secretary Avnish Awasthi.
Their protest marches were interrupted, some political workers established their base at the barricades. The AAP workers sat on a dharna. When the police used “mild force” to remove them, they began to sing the national anthem. Members of the Sangh Parivar Hindu Mahasabha organization also gathered at the site to record protests and demand action against the accused. They were also forced to leave.
Within the village, members of the upper caste community were seen moving freely, organizing a “counter-protest” to demand “justice for the accused.” The four defendants are from their community.
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