Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Bhim Army Chief Chandrashekhar Azad, along with a crowd of hundreds, gathered in Delhi's Jantar Mantar today in protest against the Hathras case. "We have assembled here in grief. I pray to God that our daughter's soul gets peace. I request the Uttar Pradesh government with my hands folded, hang the guilty as soon as possible. They should get such a punishment that no one will dare commit a crime like this again," Mr Kejriwal said. Chandrashekhar Azad demanded answers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the gang rape and murder of a 20-year-old Dalit woman from Uttar Pradesh's Hathras - whose body cops then cremated at 2.30 am - in a crime that has outraged the nation.
Earlier today, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today offered prayers at a Valmiki temple in Delhi where a prayer meeting was organised by the party's Delhi unit in the wake of the Hathras incident. The Congress has asked its party leaders to organise prayer meetings in Valmiki Temples across the country as the victim who was killed in Hathras belonged to the scheduled caste.
The 20-year-old who died on Tuesday had suffered multiple fractures, paralysis and severe spinal injury when she was assaulted by four men of the so-called upper castes from her village on September 14. The police said there was a gash in her tongue because she had bitten it when the men were trying to strangle her.
The brutality to the woman and the post-midnight funeral by the police has triggered a widespread outrage.