Hathras gang rape: Arvind Kejriwal demanded the death penalty for the guilty (archive)
New Delhi:
Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said today that the woman gang-raped in UP Hathras was “previously raped by some beasts” and then “raped by the whole system” after the woman’s family alleged that the police forced them to perform their last rites in the middle of the night.
The body of the 19-year-old Dalit woman, who died in Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital on Tuesday, fifteen days after she was gang-raped, was cremated in Hathras in the early hours of this morning.
However, local police officers told the Press Trust of India news agency that the cremation was carried out “according to the wishes of the family.”
“Hathras’ victim was previously raped by some beasts and yesterday the whole system raped her. The whole thing is very painful,” Kejriwal tweeted in Hindi.
हाथरस की पीडिता का पहले कुछ वहशियों ने बलात्कार किया और कल पूरे सिस्टम ने बलात्कार किया। पूरा प्रकरण बेहद पीड़ादायी है।
– Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) September 30, 2020
Kejriwal had previously called the 19-year-old woman’s death a “source of shame for the whole society, the country and all governments”, and demanded the death penalty for those guilty.
The woman was raped in a village in the Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh by four men on 14 September. She was referred to Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi after initially being treated in UP. She died at Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi.
When news of her death spread, protests broke out in Delhi and Hathras with all sectors of society, including politicians, athletes, Bollywood stars and activists, who expressed their distress and demanded justice for her.
Bhim congressional and army workers staged protests at Safdarjung Hospital on Tuesday, demanding justice for the women. Uttar Pradesh police took the woman’s body and members of her family to the state from the hospital on Tuesday night.
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