All four people accused of the incident have been arrested. (File)
Bulgaddhi / Hathras:
Seeking justice for the 19-year-old girl, family members of the Hathras victim spoke to reporters after two days the media were allowed to enter their village.
“We want to know whose body was burned that day. And if it was our sister’s body then why did they burn it (the body) in this way? We all asked the police and the administration to allow us to see her the last time, ”the victim’s brother said after the media were allowed to enter the village and speak to the victim’s family.
“Also, when we asked for the autopsy report, they said you won’t understand it because you can’t read English,” the brother told ANI.
According to a family source, although the SIT investigation is ongoing, the team did not visit their home or speak to them yesterday. They had spoken to them earlier. The SIT team spoke yesterday with other inhabitants of the village.
The family complained that they had not been allowed to leave the house for the past two days and there is a constant presence of police in the house all the time.
“We have not been allowed to leave our home for the past two days. We are still scared,” the brother said.
“We asked the police to give us some privacy. They were in the house all the time. The administrative officers would come and ask us to show our phone. It was the only communication we had with the outside world in the last two days, added the brother of the “victim”.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday assembled a three-member special investigative team to investigate the Hathras incident.
The SIT team spoke to other villagers after completing their survey with the family.
Another family member said: “We are under pressure to settle the matter by the ‘Adhikari village’. However, all we want is justice ”.
“The restriction on the media inside the village has been lifted. Only media are allowed at present. However, more than five people from the media are not allowed to assemble as section 144 of the CRPC is in operation. place, “Sadar Deputy Magistrate (SDM) Prem Prakash Meena informed.
Media have not been allowed to enter the village for the past two days, causing confusion. Yesterday, additional SP Hathras Prakash Kumar said, “The restriction on media entry into the village will remain until SIT completes its investigation there.”
The government provided the family with an amount of Rs 25 lakh, a house, a government service in the group C category. The family’s request to hear the case in an expedited court and the SIT investigation was also accepted.
Victim Hathras died at Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi. The autopsy report stated that the victim suffered a fracture of the “C6 cervical vertebra” and that there had been “extravasations of blood along the fracture line” and that the underlying spinal cord was ” bruised by ascending edema ”. However, there is no mention of rape in the report.
All four people accused of the incident have been arrested.
