BJP veteran Uma Bharti, who is presently receiving treatment for a COVID-19 infection, on Friday, 2 October, in a series of tweets urged Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to call off the police siege around the home and village of the Dalit woman who died after being gang-raped in UP’s Hathras.
Uma Bharti also, in her tweets, condemned the haste with which the victim was cremated, in the middle of the night, by UP police.
Bharti, also went on to tweet in Hindi, that at first she had decided to not say anything, because she had thought the UP CM must be taking action in this regard.
She further said that she does not know of any rule under which a family can't meet anybody because of a SIT (Special Investigation Team) probe.
She told the UP CM that he has “a very clean image” and requested him to “allow media persons and other political parties to meet the aggrieved family.”
Bharti further said:
Meanwhile, a little after Uma Bharti’s tweets, reports came in that the Superintendent and Deputy Superintend of Police in UP’s Hathras have been suspended. According to the UP Chief Minister’s Office, they are also expected to go through a narco-polygraph test.
The body of the 19-year-old Dalit woman who was gang-raped and murdered, allegedly by four upper-caste men in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras village, was reportedly ‘forcibly cremated’ by the Uttar Pradesh Police in the wee hours on Wednesday, 30 September.
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