HATHRAS: In your first comments to the media after the UP administration prevented you from speaking for days, the family of the 19-year-old Dalit girl from Hathras said on Saturday that they will not submerge the ashes of the dead teenager. since they don’t know if it was hers. Later that day, in the face of a growing demand for accountability, Prime Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered a CBI investigation into the girl’s alleged gang rape and death.
“Two senior government officials he met the family and then presented his report to the chief minister. Based on that, CBI has been asked to take over the investigation of the case, ”said Chief Secretary Rajendra Tewari. TOI. “The objective is to dispel all doubts and misgivings and guarantee justice.”
After the announcement, the victim’s brother said that the family would be satisfied if the investigation is “monitored by a session Supreme Court judge. “The family also said that they will not undergo a narcopolygraph test as they are not the ones lying. And, in a significant statement, the family said they had been” incarcerated “by an administration that” forced “them to. sign a piece of paper saying that they accepted the compensation and work offered by the state government.
“Insaaniyat ke naate wahaan se asthiyaan le aaya … Koi nyay nahin mila (I collected the ashes of humanity, not because we got justice),” said the victim’s brother.
Four days have passed since the girl, who died after being allegedly raped by four upper-caste men in her village, was cremated by the police without the presence of the family. The site is a small cremation space dug in the middle of the bajra fields for the Dalit community in the village. The family will not submerge the ashes. “We are not sure who these ashes are,” said the brother. The girl’s mother asked why her face was not shown to the family before the cremation: “Everyone who came near was thrown out, kicked.”
For the past two days, the family said, they have been confined to their home. “We were imprisoned in our own home. We don’t know what happened to the investigation, ”said the brother, when asked about the meetings with UP officials. “We will not be satisfied until we get answers.”
But they know that the government has ordered narco and polygraph evidence for everyone involved in the case: the police, the defendants and even them. “Why should polygraph tests be done on us? Are we to blame? “asked the victim’s sister-in-law.” We will not submit to these tests. They must test the defendants and the police who are trying to twist the narrative to be truthful. ” The girl’s father, for example, had been “forced to sign a work and compensation document,” the sister-in-law said.
“These two days, the police have questioned our every move. We couldn’t even get out. Just today some of our relatives were able to go out to buy supplies, ”said the sister-in-law. The 19-year-old had two brothers and two sisters.
When told that the SP had been suspended on Friday, the girl’s brother replied, “What about the DM?” The district magistrate, Praveen Laxkar, had been seen in a video that allegedly threatened the family with a reminder that “the media will leave, we will be here.” The brother said that the family had been warned: “The DM had asked if we would have obtained any compensation if my sister had died from the crown.”
In the afternoon, when the additional chief secretary Avnish Awasthi and DGP HC Awasthi visited them, that’s what the family mentioned. The brother said: “We looked for answers from them, they didn’t ask us anything. We have registered our complaint about the DM. ”
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