UP Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar claimed on Thursday, 1 October, that the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) report has made it clear that there was no rape in the incident where a 19-year-old Dalit woman died after she was allegedly gang-raped in UP’s Hathras by four upper caste men from her village on 14 September, ANI reported.
The 19-year-old was found by her mother in the field naked, bleeding, with multiple fractures and a gash in her tongue. She passed away on Tuesday after succumbing to her injuries.
Speaking to the media on Thursday, ADG Kumar said that the postmortem report had found that the cause of death was a neck injury and the trauma sustained from that. He added that no sperm had been found in the samples provided and that it was clear that the matter was being twisted to cause caste-based tensions.