Hathras case: The CBI team visited the woman’s village on Tuesday.
New Delhi:
The government of Uttar Pradesh today asked the Supreme Court to oversee the IWC investigation into the alleged gang rape and torture in Hathras of Uttar Pradesh of a 20-year-old Dalit woman, who died in a hospital in Delhi last month, and added that the state The government is “committed to providing total security to the victims’ families and witnesses.”
The Central Bureau of Investigation began investigating the case on Tuesday, with a team of CBI officials visiting the woman’s, about a month after she was allegedly gang-raped by four men from the so-called upper caste community.
The UP government also asked the higher court to instruct the central investigative agency to submit biweekly status reports to the state government so that they can be submitted to the Supreme Court through the chief of police.
Giving details of the security provided to the woman’s family, the UP government, in its affidavit before the high court, presented a list of police personnel assigned to security in Hathras, including outside their home.
Eight CCTV cameras were installed outside his home for surveillance and police have ensured that there is no intrusion into the family’s privacy, Uttar Pradesh said.
The Supreme Court will take up the case tomorrow.
The CBI team visited the millet field in UP village on Tuesday where, according to the victim’s brother, the defendant attempted to strangle the 20-year-old woman. The victim’s mother, who was unwell, was also taken to the crime scene by CBI officials as she returned home in an ambulance after a brief visit to the hospital.
The CBI officials were accompanied by a forensic expert, police personnel and the woman’s brother. The team left the crime scene after more than two hours. Subsequently, the team visited the site where she was cremated at 2:30 am.
The CBI team is headed by Deputy Superintendent of Police Seema Pahuja, who previously handled the Shimla rape and murder case.
Meanwhile, the Uttar Pradesh police and administration faced tough questions from the Allahabad High Court on Monday about how they handled the case and the nightly cremation of the woman in the middle of the night.
The court questioned whether the case would have been treated differently if the woman, instead of belonging to a poor family, came from a rich one.
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