Hathras Protest
Hathras case: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee leading protest march in Kolkata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday hit the streets of Kolkata as she is leading a protest march held over the Hathras gangrape and murder incident.
The march is taking place from Birla Planetarium to Gandhi statue area in the city.
Meanwhile, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are on their way to Hathras district in Uttar Pradesh, where the incident took place, to meet the victim's family members.
The young woman was subjected to a savage assault and gang rape when she had gone to a field to collect fodder for cattle on September 14. She had suffered multiple fractures, paralysis, and severe spinal injury and eventually died last Tuesday.
Amid a massive outpour of anger over Uttar Pradesh Police's lackadaisical response and official inertia over the aggrieved family's pleas, her body was taken away forcibly by the cops.
Her family had begged to take her body to their home and do her last rites the next morning. Instead, they were hustled into an SUV right from the hospital and locked in their home in the village while the state police cremated their daughter at 2.30 am, in an act that is being widely viewed as a desperate attempt to cover up its string of lapses.
(Image by Avishek Mitra with inputs by Souvik Ghosh)
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