Rahul Gandhi, his sister Priyanka were detained by Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday near Yamuna Expressway when the duo, after being stopped on the road, decided to march to Hathras to meet the family of the Uttar Pradesh woman who was raped in a group and died in a Delhi hospital earlier this week.
The former president of Congress alleged that the police pushed him to the ground and hit him with a lathi.
Footage from the scene showed Gandhi being held by police officers, while one of the stills captured him falling and falling to the ground while police rejection continued. Party workers quickly gathered to collect it. The police are citing the imposition of Section 144, which prohibits the gathering of four or more people, to deny Gandhis.
“I am standing here in peace. I want to go to Hathras alone. Section 144 speaks of public assembly. I will go alone to Hathras. What are you holding me about? Rahul Gandhi asked in Hindi to the police officers on the scene.
The 19-year-old Dalit woman, who died in a Delhi hospital on Tuesday 15 days after being gang-raped in Hathras while out foraging with her mother, was cremated early Wednesday morning with her family. claiming that the local police forced them to perform the last rites in the dead of night.
Previously, members of Dalit groups and activists claimed that the morning cremation was carried out to prevent any mobilization or protest in the village.
“The whole world is watching how the government and the police together cremated our sister in the absence of her family. I have been arrested and placed under house arrest in Saharanpur; but we will keep fighting, ”said Chandrasekhar Azad, head of the Bhim Army, which had led the protests in front of the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi on Tuesday.
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