Pertaining to a call from the Prime Minister Modi, the Yogi-led Uttar Pradesh administration on Wednesday has constituted a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe into the alleged gang rape and pitiless assault of the 19-year-old victim. The SIT that includes UP Police DIG Chandraprakash and Agra PAC Commandant Poonam as constituents, will be headed by Home Secretary Bhagwan Swaroop. It is expected to submit a report based on the findings of the investigation within seven days.
Geared towards facilitating swift justice for the barbarity stricken soul, the state will also set up fast track courts after facing extensive rebuke and condemnation from around the country on streets as well as on social media. Likewise, the state has also proclaimed Rs 25 lakh as compensation for the victim’s family, a house under the State Urban Development Agency in Hathras city and promised a government job for a family member.
The victim of gang rape and assault in Hathras’ Boolgarhi village who had succumbed to brutality in New Delhi’s Safdarjung hospital after fighting a tedious battle with life for 2 weeks, was cremated during the wee hours on Wednesday allegedly without family’s consent.
Amidst widespread outrage, protests and candle marches demanding justice for the grave circumstances inflicted upon the victim and the unmannerly conduct of the last rites, Hathras police has contrastingly said that the cremation was organized as per the directions of the family. Today, senior police personnel claimed that the victim wasn’t raped citing a forensic report. “The report of the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) has also come. It says clearly that samples did not have sperm. It makes clear that there was no rape or gang rape,” ADG (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar said.
The victim’s father, on the other hand, has declared that the family was forbidden a last look at the girl before the last rites were carried out. “When we reached the village [from Delhi], we found the village was turned into a police fortress. Police personnel stopped family members, including women, to come out of their houses, and manhandled them. All they [the family members] wanted was to wait till 8 a.m.,” The Hindu quoted the victim’s father as saying.
The principal of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (JNMC) and hospital, where the gang-rape victim of Hathras was being provided medical aid for more than two weeks, said today that he was clueless why she was admitted to Safdarjung hospital in New Delhi while she was rather referred to AIIMS by JNMC administration. “We are not in a position to explain as to why the patient was taken to the Safdarjung hospital in New Delhi when we had referred her to the AIIMS. On the night of September 28, the victim’s family sought permission to shift her and we willingly referred her to the AIIMS, “quoted NDTV, JNMC’s Professor Shahid Ali Siddiqui as saying.
MEDIA PROPAGANDA: @hathraspolice cremated Hathras victim’s body without even informing her family.
TRUTH: Victim’s family did her last rites themselves.
Instead of spreading fake rumours to build political narratives, let us concentrate on ensuring #JusticeForManisha. pic.twitter.com/SPFgc6SVco
— Priti Gandhi (Modi ka Parivar) (@MrsGandhi) September 30, 2020
Meanwhile, a video is also being shared to make misleading assertions that Hathras gang-rape victim’s family performed her last rites while one can clearly identify the fact that the three men who are being claimed to have cremated the body, are only throwing wooden logs in the pre-ignited funeral pyre which is already burning full-fledged. Moreover, the cremation ceremony was performed at an ungodly hour during the dead of the night whereas the Hindu belief is that all religious rituals are to be conducted after sunrise. This is so because all the rituals address ADITYA, Gods in Heaven. When the sun rises, it gives access to Heavens where Devatas reside. During the night, only Pishachas thrive. If one wishes to ascend to heaven, they can do so only during the day.
“In a state where vehicles can overturn under high security anytime,” as Kailash Vijayvargiya, National General Secretary of the BJP said on Hathras gang rape case, justice obviously remains far-off to be achieved. Moreover, for an individual who is doubly marginalized having subjected to discrimination being a Dalit and simultaneously facing havocs of patriarchy being a woman, justice in principle, exists inevitably at the end of the rainbow.
