AGRA: They don’t leave their house, no one enters without a close check, and they have hardly spoken to anyone else in town for three months. The 19-year-old’s family Dalit girl from Hathras who supposedly was gangrabped and killed just wants to get out
“We had said this before and we say it again. We want to move out of our village, ”the victim’s younger brother told TOI on Saturday.
The families of the four defendants are influential people in the village and the Dalit families, four of them, “would stay out of the way” of the 60 upper caste families. “We fear that they may harm us,” he said.
In October, for example, they had received a text message: “My advice to you is to admit the truth or all the land in this country will not be enough for you to hide. I will have you and your mother put in jail for killing her (the victim). ”He saw the message in November and told police and CBI who, he added, said they would investigate.
But at the time the message was sent, the family had raised concerns for his safety and provided security cover. Two weeks after that, the family had approached the Allahabad High Court with a petition to secure their relocation to Delhi so that they could “move freely”. So far, no one from the administration has contacted them about this.
“CRPF staff always accompany us but don’t bother us. Nobody enters without having consulted us first. But the security we have now will not be there forever, ”he said. The Hathras District Magistrate Praveen Kumar Laxkar had told them the same thing in an alleged video that went viral a day after the police cremated the girl without the consent of her family. “How can we feel safe?” said the victim’s sister-in-law. The younger brother has left his job as a laboratory assistant in Ghaziabad.
In all this, there is inevitably the question of basic sustenance.
“We have received the compensation of Rs 25 lakh, but we have not been provided with a house or work, which the CM had promised,” he said.
Initially, the district administration had been sending livestock feed and fodder to his home.
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