A 20-year-old woman, who died in Delhi on Tuesday two weeks after being gang-raped and tortured in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras, was cremated by police last night, allegedly when her family and relatives were locked in their homes. A disturbing sequence of events captured in footage overnight shows the family arguing with the police, female relatives throwing themselves on the hood of the ambulance carrying the body, and a helpless crying mother as the police insist on taking their daughter directly to the cremation, not allowing a last look.
The woman died yesterday morning at Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi. She had suffered multiple fractures, paralysis and a cut tongue in the horrific assault that paralleled the Nirbhaya gang rape in 2012. But long after her death, her family had to endure a night of endless horror.
The family and relatives of the UP rape victim were allegedly locked in their homes.
As protesters outside the Delhi hospital chanted “Hang the rapists,” the woman’s brothers complained that the UP police had taken the body without their knowledge.
His father and brothers sat down in protest, but the cops took them away in a black Scorpio with UP badges.
Family members were seen throwing themselves on the hood of the ambulance carrying the body.
The woman’s body was taken to her village in Hathras, about 200 km from Delhi, after midnight. As her family and the villagers suspected that the UP police wanted to complete the last rites right then and there, in the middle of the night, they insisted that this was “against their tradition”; The woman’s father pleaded with the police to allow him to take her home and incinerate her in the morning.
In the village, female relatives tried to block the vehicle by hugging the hood. A woman, believed to be the mother of the 20-year-old, was sitting on the street sobbing and beating her chest.
The police vehicle was stopped at several points before the police drove the protesters away and drove them to the funeral site.
The police vehicle was stopped on multiple occasions.
Appeals were also made to the district magistrate Praveen Kumar Laxkar to take her body home for the last rites after sunrise.
At 2:30 a.m. M., While most of her family was at home, the police cremated the body.
Continuing with their inexplicable acts, the Hathras police formed a human chain to keep reporters, family and villagers away. There were only police officers present. Her family could not see her for the last time. Apparently, they were locked in their house.
The four attackers, men of upper castes from the village of women, are in jail. Now they will also be charged with murder.
UP police are under scrutiny for alleged lapses throughout the case. They initially registered an attempted murder case, but added rape charges only after the woman’s formal statement. Yesterday, a senior official said the rape had not been confirmed and that they were awaiting a forensic report.
UP Police have denied the family’s allegation of a slow response.
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