Hathras and after: How myopic politics is failing victims of sex crimes
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras and after: How myopic politics is failing victims of sex crimes

India Today  

Hathras case has brought to light two aspects of sexual assault crimes against women. Some of the influential people have emphasised the need to "inculcate samskar in daughters" while others conveniently blamed sexual assault crimes on internet. 'RAPE BY FOUR NOT PRACTICAL' Veteran politician and former Union minister Mulayam Singh Yadav infamously said during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls that "boys make mistakes" while opposing the death for rape law. "Rape ke liye phaansi dena ghalat hai, ladkon se ghalti ho jaati hai, hum satta mein aaye to kanoon mein badlav karenge," Mulayam Singh Yadav told an election rally in Uttar Pradesh in April 2014. While it is unclear what was the exact nature and extent of assault on the Hathras victim, comments by some of the influential people appear to trivialize sexual assault crimes against women.

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What's The Truth of Hathras? Here Are The Questions The Court Verdict Answers And The Ones It Raises
1 year, 9 months ago

What's The Truth of Hathras? Here Are The Questions The Court Verdict Answers And The Ones It Raises

News 18  

It was a love affair gone horribly wrong for reasons no one knows, it was not murder as the intention was not to kill the girl, and she lied in some measure in her dying statements — this is how a court last week settled the 2020 Hathras case. But the court flagged the possibility of the girl being influenced …

Hathras Case| No Medical Evidence Of Gang Rape, Victim Was Possibly Tutored; Can’t Say Prime Accused Intended To Kill Her: UP Court
1 year, 9 months ago

Hathras Case| No Medical Evidence Of Gang Rape, Victim Was Possibly Tutored; Can’t Say Prime Accused Intended To Kill Her: UP Court

Live Law  

Convicting one person in the Hathras alleged Gang Rape & Murder case, the Uttar Pradesh Court, in its judgment noted that since the entire case had assumed political undertones, it was possible that the victim had made allegations of gang rape against the 4 accused after being tutored by her family members and other people who had been coming to …

Hathras rape-murder case: A doomed investigation to begin with
1 year, 9 months ago

Hathras rape-murder case: A doomed investigation to begin with

The Hindu  

Published : Mar 03, 2023 17:50 IST On March 2, 2023, an SC/ST court in its verdict in the highly publicised Hathras case of 2020 dropped the charges of rape against the four accused men in the case. But a video of the victim shot outside a local police station went viral later, in which she can be heard telling …

Hathras case: Why court dropped rape charges, convicted 1 and acquitted 3
1 year, 9 months ago

Hathras case: Why court dropped rape charges, convicted 1 and acquitted 3

India Today  

A court in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday convicted a person and acquitted three others in the Hathras rape-murder case. Here's why the court dropped rape charges in the Hathras case. As per the court, the victim and her mother did not disclose sexual assault to doctors at the time she was hospitalised on September 14, 2020. READ | From delayed …

Hathras rape and murder | SC/ST court acquits three, holds one guilty of culpable homicide
1 year, 9 months ago

Hathras rape and murder | SC/ST court acquits three, holds one guilty of culpable homicide

The Hindu  

An SC/ST court in Hathras on Thursday acquitted three out of four accused persons, and convicted one person for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, in the case involving the rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit girl. The victim’s family is likely to approach the Allahabad High Court against the verdict. We will move our appeal on the lower …

Hathras case: UP court drops gang-rape charges as it convicts 1, acquits 3
1 year, 9 months ago

Hathras case: UP court drops gang-rape charges as it convicts 1, acquits 3

India Today  

A district court in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday acquitted three of the four accused in the September 2020 Hathras gang-rape and murder case. The UP court also acquitted three of the four accused in the case while convicting the prime accused of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, under section 304 of the Indian Penal Code. As per the court's …

Hathras rape-murder case: Court acquits 3, holds one guilty
1 year, 9 months ago

Hathras rape-murder case: Court acquits 3, holds one guilty

India Today  

An SC/ST court on Thursday held a person guilty and acquitted three others in the Hathras rape-murder case. Out of the four accused – Sandeep, Ravi, Luv Kush, and Ramu – the court held that Sandeep was guilty of the crime. HATHRAS RAPE CASE In September 2020, a 19-year-old Dalit woman was raped and critically injured at Boolgarhi in Western …

Hathras Gang Rape Case: Allahabad HC Seeks Details Of Scheme For Relief & Rehabilitation Of Atrocity Victims Under SC/ST Act
3 years, 3 months ago

Hathras Gang Rape Case: Allahabad HC Seeks Details Of Scheme For Relief & Rehabilitation Of Atrocity Victims Under SC/ST Act

Live Law  

The Allahabad High Court today asked the Uttar Pradesh Government to specify details of the Scheme as envisaged under Sub Section 11 of Section 15-A of The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act, 1989 read with Rule 14 of The SC/ST Rules, 1995.This particular subsection makes it the duty of the concerned State to specify an appropriate scheme to ensure. …

Man held for rape, murder of 10-year-old in UP's Hathras
3 years, 3 months ago

Man held for rape, murder of 10-year-old in UP's Hathras

India TV News  

The Hathras police have arrested a 35-year-old man who allegedly raped and killed a 10- year-old girl. Hathras Superintendent of Police Vineet Jaiswal said the incident took place on Monday when the accused was visiting his sisters for Raksha Bandhan. The girl's body was found near a canal on Monday and an FIR lodged on the basis of a complaint …

Hathras murder case shows UP govt's claims about improved safety for women are tenuous
3 years, 9 months ago

Hathras murder case shows UP govt's claims about improved safety for women are tenuous

Firstpost  

In the nearly four years that the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has been in power, a recurring point of criticism against it has been its handling of crimes against women. In the Aligarh case, even as the girl’s body was reportedly found in a semi-nude condition in a field, the police have said that the postmortem report has …

Hathras horror: Out on bail, sexual assault case accused kills survivor’s father
3 years, 9 months ago

Hathras horror: Out on bail, sexual assault case accused kills survivor’s father

India TV News  

A man who was granted bail in a sexual assault case allegedly shot dead the survivor's father in Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh, news agency ANI reported. Hathras Police chief Vineet Jaiswal said that families of girl and Gaurav were hostile to each other. Police said that one person has so far been arrested in the case and teams have …

After yet another shocker from Hathras, here's a look at the brutal rapes that rattled Uttar Pradesh
3 years, 9 months ago

After yet another shocker from Hathras, here's a look at the brutal rapes that rattled Uttar Pradesh

India Today  

The murder of a man whose daughter was allegedly sexually harassed by the accused in Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh has again brought the focus back on crimes against women in the state. Hathras had earlier shot to national infamy after a 20-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly gang-raped by four upper caste men and the police's handling of the case, …

Hathras victim was gang-raped, murdered: CBI
4 years ago

Hathras victim was gang-raped, murdered: CBI

The Hindu  

The CBI on Friday filed a charge sheet against four accused persons for the gang rape and murder of a Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras in September. Hathras gang rape | A long caste feud, a horrific crime, and a sudden cremation On October 1, Uttar Pradesh’s Additional Director General of Police Prashant Kumar said the forensic report from …

Hathras case: Victim's family appears before Allahabad HC; next hearing slated for 2 November
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras case: Victim's family appears before Allahabad HC; next hearing slated for 2 November

Firstpost  

The court on 1 October had asked the victim’s parents to apprise it of their version of the incident and had also ordered the Hathras district administration to arrange for their travel to the court Lucknow: Family members of the 19-year-old Dalit woman who died after allegedly being raped by four upper-caste men in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras appeared before the …

Hathras gang rape | CBI readies to take over probe
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras gang rape | CBI readies to take over probe

The Hindu  

The Central Bureau of Investigation is in the process of taking over the probe into the alleged gang rape and assault on a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras on September 14, following a reference from the Uttar Pradesh government. Hathras gang rape | Victim’s family to appear before Allahabad High Court on October 12 The woman was initially admitted to …

Hathras Exists in Jharkhand as Well: HC Over 'Shoddy' Probe in Rape-murder Case of 15-year-old in Giridih
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras Exists in Jharkhand as Well: HC Over 'Shoddy' Probe in Rape-murder Case of 15-year-old in Giridih

News 18  

The Jharkhand High Court has pulled up the state police for its “lacklustre and shoddy investigation” into the alleged rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl earlier in the year, and said Hathras-like places not just exist in Uttar Pradesh but in this state as well. Justice Ananda Sen, while hearing a writ petition filed by the father on Thursday, …

Hathras, a new phase in the caste atrocity narrative
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras, a new phase in the caste atrocity narrative

The Hindu  

The gang rape that took place recently in Bul Garhi, a tiny village near Hathras in Uttar Pradesh, marks a new phase in the eventful history of rape-as-caste-atrocity in the 21st century. Criminalising the ‘legitimate’ A provisional answer to this dilemma emerges through the notion of the caste atrocity, and a new law — the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled …

Hathras Rape Accused Claims Victim’s Family Killed Her as They Were Against Their ‘Friendship’
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras Rape Accused Claims Victim’s Family Killed Her as They Were Against Their ‘Friendship’

News 18  

The prime accused in the alleged gang rape and brutal assault of a 19-year-old Dalit girl in Hathras has claimed that he and three other accused in the case are being framed by the woman’s family as her kin did not approve of the friendship between them. In a handwritten letter to the Uttar Pradesh police, Sandeep Thakur claimed that …

Hathras accused plead innocence, say the victim was beaten by her own family members
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras accused plead innocence, say the victim was beaten by her own family members

Op India  

In the Hathras case, the four accused who had been arrested by UP Police wrote a letter to the Superintendent of Police from jail and have claimed that they are innocent. Hathras case The Hathras case in which a 19-year-old woman was strangulated on September 14 and later succombed to injuries on September 29 has been the ground for much …

Hathras Case: SC Shocked, Asks UP Govt About Witness Protection
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras Case: SC Shocked, Asks UP Govt About Witness Protection

The Quint  

The UP Government, in its response, has insisted that all steps were taken to ensure the not even a trace of suspicion remains and the probe into the case was progressing fairly and efficiently, reported Live Law. According to Live Law, the state government also claimed that an FIR was registered “immediately” on 14 September, when they first received information …

Hathras: Retd. Judicial Officer, Advocates Move SC For Court Monitored Investigation, Penal Action Against State Authorities, Strict Implementation Of Rape Laws [Read Petitions]
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras: Retd. Judicial Officer, Advocates Move SC For Court Monitored Investigation, Penal Action Against State Authorities, Strict Implementation Of Rape Laws [Read Petitions]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court has been moved in two PILs in the wake of the unfortunate incident of the brutal gang-rape in Hathras, UP.The first plea, by Chandra Bhan Singh, retired Judicial Officer, states the petitioner is antsy and dismayed by the bizarre acts of the U.P State machinery. The plea, through advocate Smarhar Singh, asks that if upon investigation guilt …

Hathras Case: A comprehensive timeline of events from 14th September
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras Case: A comprehensive timeline of events from 14th September

Op India  

The Hathras case has turned into a great political ruckus with the Congress party looking to use the tragedy as a platform to launch the career of Priyanka Gandhi and a pliant media compliant with their interests. The ToI report stated, “A 19-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly gangraped by four upper caste men in UP’s Hathras who also tried to …

Hathras victim alleged rape attempt in 3 videos, the one re-issued by BJP's IT cell included
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras victim alleged rape attempt in 3 videos, the one re-issued by BJP's IT cell included

India Today  

As the Bharatiya Janata Party's IT cell seems to downplay the accusations of gang rape in the Hathras case, three separate videos of the 19-year-old victim analysed by India Today TV clearly show that she had been consistently alleging sexual violence by her attackers. One of the clips, examined by India Today TV, was in fact posted by the party's …

Hathras gang rape | A long caste feud, a horrific crime, and a sudden cremation
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras gang rape | A long caste feud, a horrific crime, and a sudden cremation

The Hindu  

With sadness in his voice, the uncle of the 19-year-old woman who was assaulted and allegedly gang-raped in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, speaks fondly of the family’s pride. The uncle sums her up in one sentence: “She was a superstar.” Following her brutal assault on September 14, the young woman fought for her life at Aligarh’s J.N. Hathras gang rape | …

Hathras gangrape: UP Police blocks entry to victim's village; family claims intimidation, harassment
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras gangrape: UP Police blocks entry to victim's village; family claims intimidation, harassment

Firstpost  

According reports, the victim’s family members have been confined within a single room of their house, and their mobile phones have been taken away by local authorities while Section 144 has been imposed in the entire region The Uttar Pradesh Police, on Friday, continued its strict control over access to the Hathras gangrape and murder victim’s family, manhandling Opposition leaders …

Hathras case: Initial videos of victim and her mother emerge, no mention of rape
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras case: Initial videos of victim and her mother emerge, no mention of rape

Op India  

The Hathras incident has become a political slugfest where ruling and opposition parties are engaged in allegations and counter-allegations. ‼️खण्डन/Denial‼️ ➡️ कतिपय सोशल मीडिया के माध्यम से यह असत्य खबर सार्वजनिक रुप से फैलायी जा रही है कि “थाना चन्दपा क्षेत्रान्तर्गत दुर्भाग्यपूर्ण घटित घटना में मृतिका की जीभ काटी गयी, आँख फोडी गयी तथा रीढ की हड्डी तोड दी गयी …

Hathras gang-rape: Ghaziabad lawyers demand President's Rule in UP amid outrage over victim's cremation
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras gang-rape: Ghaziabad lawyers demand President's Rule in UP amid outrage over victim's cremation

Firstpost  

The advocates’ body convener Nahar Singh Yadav said the Yogi government has ’totally failed in controlling the crime in the state, more so against women' Ghaziabad: Amid the widespread outrage over the alleged gang-rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras and her forcible cremation subsequently, scores of Ghaziabad lawyers on Thursday demanded imposition of President Rule in …

Undying embers: The Hindu Editorial on Hathras rape and women’s safety
4 years, 2 months ago

Undying embers: The Hindu Editorial on Hathras rape and women’s safety

The Hindu  

The bleak image of a burning pyre illuminating a ghastly night while policemen stood guard will be forever etched in India’s collective memory. This inhuman act which follows a string of sexual violence cases in Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere in India highlights some grim truths, primarily that the safety of women is not a guarantee despite the stringent laws in …

Hathras Rape: Why Does Justice System Act Differently For Dalits?
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras Rape: Why Does Justice System Act Differently For Dalits?

The Quint  

The incident where a 19-year-old Dalit woman from Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district succumbed to her injuries after being allegedly gang-raped and brutalised by 4 upper-caste men has sparked a reckoning around the everyday caste-based violence. While citizens are shaken up by the heinous nature of the crime, Dalit rights activists are pointing out that it's not just the crime but …

Forensic reports show Hathras victim was not raped, matter twisted to stir caste-based tension: UP ADG
4 years, 2 months ago

Forensic reports show Hathras victim was not raped, matter twisted to stir caste-based tension: UP ADG

India TV News  

UP Additional Director General of Police Prashant Kumar on Thursday said the FSL report reveal that the 19-year-old Hathras gangrape-murder victim, was not raped. The FSL report has already clarified that there was no rape on the victim.” “It clearly shows how a conspiracy was hatched to create caste tension on completely wrong information. The woman was allegedly raped at …

Hathras gang rape | Autopsy shows strangulation, fracture
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras gang rape | Autopsy shows strangulation, fracture

The Hindu  

The autopsy report of the Hathras gang rape victim confirms injury to the cervical spine produced by indirect blunt trauma, and its resultant sequelae. The final diagnosis says “alleged post strangulation with cervical spine injury with sepsis and cardiopulmonary arrest.” The death summary notes “no vomiting and seizure”. Dr. Haris Khan, medical superintendent, JNMCH, told The Hindu “the gynaecological and …

Hathras case: Police says sexual assault has not been confirmed, political slugfest continues
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras case: Police says sexual assault has not been confirmed, political slugfest continues

Op India  

A lot of debate and political mu slinging has been happening around the Hathras case since the victim succumbed to her injuries in Delhi’s Safdarjung hospital on Tuesday morning. The case attracted nationwide outrage when some reports claimed Hathras Police forcefully cremated the girl on Tuesday night without consent of the family members. Such people will be identified & legal …

[Hathras Brutality] "Reassure The Faith In Rule of Law": Lady Lawyers Write To CJI Seeking To Ensure Strictest and Swiftest possible Punishment to the Accused [Read Letter]
4 years, 2 months ago

[Hathras Brutality] "Reassure The Faith In Rule of Law": Lady Lawyers Write To CJI Seeking To Ensure Strictest and Swiftest possible Punishment to the Accused [Read Letter]

Live Law  

A Group of Lady Advocates has written to Chief Justice of India seeking Constitution of a High Court monitored investigation and trial to ensure strictest and swiftest possible punishment to the accused the Hathras rape and murder case.The Group has also sought a direction tp Immediate inquiry and suspension or any punitive action against all erring police, administrative, and even. …

Hathras case: FSL report denies rape, Allahabad HC issues notice to UP govt | 10 points
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras case: FSL report denies rape, Allahabad HC issues notice to UP govt | 10 points

India Today  

Hathras in Uttar Pradesh has landed in the national spotlight following the death of a 19-year-old Dalit girl. The decision was made hours after Congress general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka Gandhi and former party president Rahul Gandhi announced their plan to visit the family of the victim. Former Uttar Pradesh chief ministers Mayawati of the BSP and Akhilesh …

Hathras horror: Rapes happening in all states, Oppn fair in singling out Yogi govt?
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras horror: Rapes happening in all states, Oppn fair in singling out Yogi govt?

India Today  

The Opposition has hit the highway, on the road to Hathras in Western Uttar Pradesh where a 19-year-old Dalit was allegedly gang-raped and brutalised on September 14. When asked to respond to the fact that rapes are happening in Rajasthan too, Congress spokesperson Sushmita Dev said, “It’s about how the governments in Rajasthan and UP are responding to such cases. …

Why Hathras happened: Answer lies in NCRB data, crime against women up 7.3%
4 years, 2 months ago

Why Hathras happened: Answer lies in NCRB data, crime against women up 7.3%

India Today  

There is an outrage on social media over the gruesome incident at a village in the Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh. The NCRB data also show Uttar Pradesh recorded the maximum number of cases against Scheduled Castes - 11,829 cases or 25.8 per cent of the cases reported across the country. According to the NCRB data, Uttar Pradesh accounted for …

Resolve the Hathras rape case swiftly
4 years, 2 months ago

Resolve the Hathras rape case swiftly

Hindustan Times  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention asking for strong action against the perpetrators and the statement by the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Yogi Adityanath, that a Special Investigation Team will look into the Hathras case and submit its report in a week offer hope that this crime will not fall by the wayside. Relatives of the rape victim mourns, Hathras, September …

All you need to know about the Hathras gang rape case
4 years, 2 months ago

All you need to know about the Hathras gang rape case

Op India  

The Hathras gang-rape victim was cremated on the wee hours of Wednesday by her father in presence of Police and administration. Detailing the incident, the Hathras police said that at around 10.30 am on September 14, an hour after the incident, the victim’s brother reached the police station to lodge a complaint against one Sandeep, who he alleged tried to …

Hathras Gangrape, Forcible Cremation Symbolic of Caste Violence, Lawlessness in UP: Left Parties
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras Gangrape, Forcible Cremation Symbolic of Caste Violence, Lawlessness in UP: Left Parties

News 18  

The Left parties on Wednesday hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government stating that the burial of the gangrape victim in Hathras without her family’s consent was “blatant denial of justice and exposed the prevalence of caste-based violence in the state. “The CPI strongly condemns the actions of the Adityanath Government on the blatant denial of justice to the Hathras …

After Hathras and Balrampur, two minors raped in UP's Azamgarh, Bulandshahr
4 years, 2 months ago

After Hathras and Balrampur, two minors raped in UP's Azamgarh, Bulandshahr

India Today  

Two minors were raped in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr and Azamgarh, mere hours after the death of the Hathras gangrape victim on Tuesday. MAN RAPES 8-YEAR-OLD ON PRETEXT OF BATH An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 20-year-old man in a village in Jiyanpur area of the Azamgarh district. The accused took the girl with himself from her home telling …

Contradictory claims in Hathras rape case: From family to doctors and police, who said what
4 years, 2 months ago

Contradictory claims in Hathras rape case: From family to doctors and police, who said what

India Today  

A 19-year-old woman in Hathras, who was gangraped and severely injured and left to die on September 14, succumbed to grave injuries while battling for life at a hospital in Delhi. FAMILY’S COMPLAINT ON SEPTEMBER 14: As per the family of the rape victim, her brother made the first complaint, which is mentioned in the first FIR. So obviously, we …

Hathras horror: Police, victim's family give contradictory accounts
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras horror: Police, victim's family give contradictory accounts

India Today  

Fifteen days after she was brutalised, a 19-year-old girl from Hathras in Uttar Pradesh succumbed to injuries at Safdarjung Hospital in the Capital on Tuesday. But faced with protests, police went by the victim's statement and added relevant sections related to gang rape, the family says. Police version According to police, the girl gave her second statement on September 22 …

Hathras gang rape | Victim cremated without consent, says family
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras gang rape | Victim cremated without consent, says family

The Hindu  

The family of the victim of gang rape, brutal assault and murder in Boolagarhi village of Hathras has said that the authorities did not take their permission before cremating their daughter in the early hours of Wednesday. District officials denied the charge and said the last rites had been performed after the consent of the father had been obtained, and …

Hathras gang rape victim succumbs in Delhi hospital, UP police arrests 4
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras gang rape victim succumbs in Delhi hospital, UP police arrests 4

Op India  

The 19-year-old Hathras gang-rape victim, who was battling for her life in Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital, succumbed to the critical injuries on September 29 morning. Hathras police denies social media reports of brutality Days after the heinous act, social media was rampant with reports detailing brutality of the gang rape that the girl’s spinal cord was broken and her tongue cut …

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