Hathras
Bhim Army Chief to visit Hathras victim's family today
New Delhi/IBNS: Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad is on his way to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday to meet the family of the 19-year-old girl who died two weeks after she was brutally gangraped by four men last month.
His visit comes a day after Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra met with the family members of the victim in Hathras.
On Friday, Chandrashekhar Azad had joined a protest against the Hathras incident in Delhi's Jantar Mantar and said his agitation would continue till Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath resigned.
The Dalit leader also led a protest outside Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital where the young woman was transferred from Aligarh and finally died of her injuries on Tuesday last.
Amid massive protests across the country, Yogi Adityanath ordered a Central Bureau Investigation (CBI) probe into the Hathras fatal gangrape incident on Saturday.
The Chief Minister's Office (CMO) has put up a tweet informing about Adityanath's order of a CBI probe.
The Yogi Adityanath government has come under attack after the 19-year old, who belongs to the lowest rung of caste system prevailing in the north Indian state, was allegedly dragged by her dupatta, gangraped by four men, got her spinal cord damaged and her tongue cut.
Two weeks after the incident, which occurred on Sept 14, the girl succumbed to her injuries at a Delhi hospital last Tuesday.
In an even more shocking incident, the dead body of the girl was cremated by police officials in the dead of night denying the family members a look at the victim for the last time in Uttar Pradesh, which is ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Earlier, Adityanath had set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe into the heinous crime and also ordered a trial against the accused in a fast-track court.
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