Activists at a vigil in Mumbai on Wednesday, protesting the gang rape of a Dalit woman in Hathras in UP. (AFP)
“I will not leave Hathras without meeting the family. They have asked me to be their legal adviser, but the administration does not allow me to meet with them,” he told reporters.
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Seema Kushwaha, a lawyer for the 2012 Delhi rape victim known as Nirbhaya, will now fight the Hathras victim’s case.
Seema tried to meet with the victim’s family on Thursday, but police stopped her.
“I will not leave Hathras without meeting the family. They have asked me to be their legal adviser, but the administration does not allow me to meet with them,” he told reporters.
He said he was in contact with the victim’s brother.
Kushwaha was the lawyer for the family of the 23-year-old paramedic student who was gang-raped on a moving bus on the night of December 16, 2012 by six people, including a minor in Delhi.
The woman later died in a Singapore hospital.
All four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case (Akshay Singh Thakur, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Singh) were hanged in March this year.
The 19-year-old Hathras girl had succumbed to assault wounds at the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi on Tuesday, where she was taken from the Aligarh Muslim University School of Medicine on Monday.
The government has formed a three-member SIT to investigate the case and said the matter will be heard in fast-track court. All four defendants in the case have been arrested.
The additional general director (public order), Prashant Kumar, has said that the autopsy, which was carried out by a team of doctors in Delhi, established that the death was caused by the trauma of his neck injury and there was no confirmation of rape. . .
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