Recently, a special court acquitted three of the four accused in the Hathras gangrape and murder case. The three men are back in the village. A long and arduous battle lies ahead for the girl’s family. Her ashes wait for...
For the Dalit family, the tulsi (basil) remains a fragrant memory of the young woman who died a year ago aged 19, two weeks after she was gangraped by four upper caste men of the same village.
Ostracised in upper caste-majority village and guarded round-the-clock by CRPF, life for family is now a prison
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In Bulgarhi, where upper castes are in the majority, the victim’s family finds little sympathy. Not even other Dalit families side with them. This is a potent weapon for the accused.
A year later, the security for the Dalit family is as tight as ever. Even suffocating at times. But it’s now part of the lives of the family whose worst nightmares had come true on a muggy day last year when the woman was...
Family of Hathras victim allege threat to their lawyer’s life. Cops deny allegations, claiming they are providing her an escort on trial dates
