Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the brutal murder of Dalit villager Hariom Valmiki in Raebareli has “shaken the conscience” of the entire nation, and accused the administration of trying to intimidate the victim’s family. Gandhi, who met with the family of the deceased in Fatehpur district, also charged that authorities tried to stop the family from meeting him.In a post on X in Hindi, Gandhi said, “The brutal murder of Hariom Valmiki has shaken the conscience of the entire nation. There was a question in his family’s eyes along with pain: Is being a Dalit still a deadly crime in this country?” “The administration in Uttar Pradesh is busy intimidating the victim’s family. They even tried to prevent the family from meeting me. This is the same failure of the system –? which, every time, shields the perpetrators and puts the victim in the dock,” Gandhi charged.