New Delhi: “Didi toh rahi nahi, maar diya, ab hume marenge (Sister isn’t alive, they killed her, now they will kill us),” said the younger brother of the 20-year-old Dalit woman who was allegedly gangraped and murdered in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district in 2020, after a court acquitted three of the four accused.
On Thursday, the UP court while announcing the verdict in the case charged only the main accused — Sandeep — under Section 304 (punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sections of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. None of the four upper caste men have been charged with rape/gangrape.
Both the victim’s lawyer Seema Kushwaha and defense counsel Munna Singh Pundhir confirmed the conviction to ThePrint.
The other three — Ravi, Luv Kush and Ramu — were acquitted in the case.
“This is all politics. Had this happened if we weren’t Dalits and they weren’t Thakurs? We have spent our lives in a cage since then. Our women, daughters had to be always guarded. Now what will they do? If anything happens, then who is responsible,” the brother told ThePrint over the phone.
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