Hathras Gangrape Angry & Frustrated! Such brutality in #Hathras gangrape. Akshay Kumar in a tweet wrote – When will this stop? Our laws & their enforcement must be so strict that the mere thought of punishment makes rapists shudder with fear! Hang the culprits.Raise ur voice to safeguard daughters & sisters-its the least we can do.
Earlier Kangana Ranuat wrote : Shoot these rapists publicly, what is the solution to these gang rapes that are growing in numbers every year? What a sad and shameful day for this country. Shame on us we failed our daughters.
20-year-old lady, gang-raped and tortured by four men in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras two weeks ago, died this morning at a hospital in Delhi. The woman had suffered multiple fractures, paralysis and a deep gash in her tongue in the savage assault compared by many to the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape.
Fractures in the neck had left her paralysed and struggling to breathe, said doctors. According to district officials, she bit her tongue when her attackers were trying to strangle her.
Angry & Frustrated!Such brutality in #Hathras gangrape.When will this stop?Our laws & their enforcement must be so strict that the mere thought of punishment makes rapists shudder with fear!Hang the culprits.Raise ur voice to safeguard daughters & sisters-its the least we can do
— Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) September 29, 2020
According to her brothers, even in that critical state, all she wanted was to go home and had said it often.
News of her death led to protests outside the hospital with the Bhim Army of Chandrashekhar Azad “Raavan” blocking roads for hours and protesters chanting “hang the rapists”. On social media, there has been an outpouring of grief and anger from politicians, celebrities and others.
All four attackers, upper caste men from the woman’s village, are in jail. They will now also be charged with murder.
The woman was attacked on September 14 at her village in Hathras, some 200 km from Delhi. In her statement to the police, she said she was dragged by her dupatta into the fields from a spot where she had been cutting grass with her mother and brother.
According the family – the mother, sister and elder brother had gone to a field to get some grass. And, then brother went home earlier with a large bundle of grass, while the mother and sister continued to cut them. The women were a little far from each other. Four-five people came from behind, threw the sister’s dupatta around her neck and dragged her inside the bajra field.
When the family searched, they found her in the fields, naked and bleeding, with horrific injuries. “My mother covered her up and we went to the police and lay her down there. Three bones on her neck were broken. She had difficulty breathing… She needed oxygen right from the beginning,” one of the surviving family member said.
“They had raped her. The police did not help us initially… they did not take quick action. They acted only after four-five days,” he said, accusing the police of reacting only after public outrage.
The UP police, under scrutiny over alleged lapses throughout the case, suddenly declared that the woman’s allegations of rape were not confirmed. “The medical examination did not reveal anything related to rape. We have asked for a forensic report. We have sent the samples to the Forensic Science Laboratory in Agra and are awaiting a report. It will be available soon,” said Aligarh police chief Piyush Mordia.
The family believes the attack was planned.