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JUSTICE TRAILS IN POLITICAL DRIVE Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra played the role of protector during a brief clash between her partymen and Uttar Pradesh cops at toll plaza on the Delhi-Noida Flyover. Clad in dark blue kurta, she hopped barricade as policemen with raised lathis surrounded her. But amidst all the slugfest, nyaay for victim still remains aloof
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses supporters at Delhi-Noida flyway on Saturday.
‘CAN’T STOP US’ Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi struggles with policemen at Delhi-Noida border as she attempts to move forward. Later, Five-member Congress delegation was permitted to go to Hathras via Noida. —PHOTOS BY PTI
No force can silence your voice: Rahul to Hathras victim’s family Victim’s family speaks to media, demand justice
Mohd Fahad New Delhi/Hathras: Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday met the family of the 20-year-old Dalit woman who was allegedly gangraped and murdered last month in Hathras - in a savage crime that has shocked the nation. “No force can silence us,” Rahul said. Priyanka echoed the sentiment, “Wherever something wrong happens, we will be there to ensure justice is served. No one can stop us.” The visit, involving a dramatic standoff with cops at the Delhi-UP border, was the Congress leaders’ second attempt - the first, on Thursday, ended in a tussle with cops who refused to let Gandhi pass, citing orders banning large gatherings amid coronavirus concerns, and shoved him to the ground in the chaos that followed. Turn on P6
We want to know whose body was burnt on that day. And if it was our sister’s body then why did they burn her (the body) in this manner? All of us requested the police and the district administration to allow us to see her one last time —Victim’s brother
while speaking to the media, which was allowed in village
NO NARCO TEST FOR US: MOTHER Hathras: The victim’s family has refused to conduct their narco test. The victim’s mother said that they want justice not just tests. Since death, DM is constantly trying to change the statement of the family. The narco test should be done of those accused who did wrong with our daughter.
Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi speaking to the family members of victim at Bulgadi village in Hathras, on Saturday.
UP CM YOGI ADITYANATH RECOMMENDS CBI PROBE Lucknow: The alleged rape and murder of a 20-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras will be investigated by the CBI, the Yogi Adityanath government said this evening. “Chief Minister @myogiadityanath Ji has ordered the CBI to conduct a probe into the entire Hathras case,” the UP Chief Minister’s office tweeted. The ruling BJP, which is under pressure over its apparent inability to prevent horrific crimes against women - at least two more assaults and rapes have been reported from the state since the Hathras case had earlier dismissed protests by the opposition as a “political stunt”.
New Delhi: Seeking justice for the 19-year-old girl, the family members of the Hathras victim spoke to reporters after two days when the media was allowed to enter their village. “We want to know whose body was burnt on that day. And if it was our sister’s body then why did they burn her (the body) in this manner? All of us requested the police and the administration to allow us to see her one last time,” said the victim’s brother after the media was allowed in the village and to speak with the victim’s family. Turn on P6
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra behind the wheels with Rahul Gandhi on their way to meet the family of the alleged gangrape victim in Hathras, on Saturday.
Day after HC summons officials, UP DGP, ACS (Home) visit village Hathras: The Director-General of Uttar Pradesh Police, HC Awasthy, reached Hathras on Saturday amid controversy over the local administration’s handling of the alleged gang rape and murder of a Dalit woman, by four men from the socalled upper caste. HC Awasthy, the UP DGP, accompanied by Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi, visited the victim’s family this afternoon.
UP officials ACS (Home) Avnish Awasthi and DGP HC Awasthy speaking with the victim’s family in Hathras on Saturday.
The visit - the first by such high-ranking officials - comes as a wave of criticism is directed at the Yogi Adi-
tyanath government over both the Hathras tragedy and similarly horrific crimes against women. Turn on P6
MAMATA JOINS OUTRAGE: TMC Supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee participates in a rally to protest Hathras incident, in Kolkata on Saturday.
DESTABILISING GAME 2.0 Relevant political circles are abuzz that few ‘influential’ individuals, including renowned Congress rebel leaders and media, are also behind the attempt to malign the government, trying to link Hathras with rape incidents in Baran and Sawai Madhopur
CM Gehlot nips another ‘rebellion’ in the bud Aditi Nagar New Delhi: It has not been long since the rebellion in Rajasthan, when an attempt was made to destabilise the Gehlot government, and now yet another attempt has been made to thwart the credibility of Gehlot government by hatching a criminal conspiracy and linking the Hathras gangrape and murder to Rajasthan. The ‘relevant’ politi-
cal circles in the desert state are abuzz with the word that few BJP leaders in Jaipur and New Delhi and also one or two renowned Congress rebels as well as a section of powerful media in Jaipur and New Delhi, are also behind this attempt to malign the government. It is said that these individuals have a knack for creating such troubles for the ruling dispensation and now they are trying
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot
to link Hathras with rape incidents in Baran and Sawai Madhopur. However, apparently, more than the principal opposition party - BJP - a few disgruntled Congress leaders, in close association with media are seen to be a part of this exercise. Truth be told, there is not even a remote connection between Baran and Sawai Madhopur incidents yet attempts are being made. In the
horrific Hathras incident, the dalit girl was gang raped, her tongue cut off and later she was murdered. After this, the UP Police, at dead of night, conducted the cremation of the girl and not even the family of the victim was allowed to see her. When Rahul and Priyanka were going to meet the family members, they were stopped in Greater Noida and manhandled by the cops.
However, in a complete departure to the ‘handling’ of the matter by the UP government, in Rajasthan, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot gave an open invitation to opposition leaders both from state capital as well as national capital to visit Baran and find the truth for themselves. Gehlot went on to stress that the security of any visiting leader would be the responsibility of the state government. Interestingly, even though CM is confident and transparent on the matter, Turn on P6