AGRA: The 19-year-old dalit gang rape victim from Hathras succumbed to injuries in Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital on Tuesday morning. She was referred from Aligarh’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College to Delhi a day earlier.
Confirming this, the victim’s brother told TOI that they got the information about her death at 6am. “We want justice for her. The accused should not be spared. They must be hanged,” he said.
The dalit girl was allegedly raped by four dominant caste men in her village on September 14. She was left paralysed with severe spinal cord injury which doctors earlier said could have been permanently damaged.
The girl was dragged by dupatta around her neck to a field where she was allegedly raped. She was picking up fodder when the suspects attacked her. Her spinal cord was damaged and her tongue, which apparently got caught between her teeth, was cut. The fact that she was allegedly raped only came out when she was able to give a statement to the police, a week into hospitalisation.
All four accused she named — Sandip, Ramu, Lavkush and Ravi — have been arrested for gang rape, attempt to murder and sections of the SC/ST Act. Police were preparing to file the chargesheet.
Hathras additional superintendent of police, Prakash Kumar said that section 302 (murder) of IPC will be added in the FIR after the death of the gang rape victim.
A compensation of Rs 4.12 lakh has been given to the kin of the victim and remaining amount will be given after charges are proved. “The body of the victim will be brought to her village after postmortem,” he said.
(The victim’s identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
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