New Delhi: The death of a a 20-year-old woman after she was gang-raped and tortured in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras continues to evoke anger and grief acfross the country.
Mortal remains of the woman, who died on Monday in Delhi, was cremated by policemen in her village last night, allegedly as her family was locked up in their home.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted, “The Hathras victim was first raped by some men and then yesterday, she was brutalised by the entire system. The whole episode is very painful.”
Rahul Gandhi tweeted, “A daughter of India has been raped and murdered. Fact are suppressed and in the end, her family’s rights to perform the last rights are snatched away. This is insulting and unjust.”
The Dalit woman from Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras died at Safdarjung hospital in Delhi on Tuesday morning, days after she was raped by four men.
The woman was gang-raped on 14 September following which she was admitted to the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital in Aligarh. She was referred to the Delhi hospital on Monday after her condition showed no signs of improvement.
The accused had also tried to strangulate her to death as she resisted their attempt and in the process, she had also ended up biting her tongue and suffering a severe cut on it.