With government already facing embarrassment over rising crimes against members of fairer sex, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance media reports on incident of rape in Hathras district of the State and and issued notice to local police seeking full report within two weeks.
In Hathras, a 22 year old dalit girl immolated herself on July 14, earlier this month, after she was allegedly gang raped in Sikandararau. The victim had told her mother that she had been sexually assaulted by three men who lived in their neighbourhood. The victim’s mother expressed her helplessness as her daughter died later in the hospital but she could not do anything to save her. What disturbed her the most was that her daughter’s rapists were still at large and local police initiated no proceeding against them despite of the victim’s dying declaration have been made.
The Commission has observed that the contents of the press reports, if true, raise serious issue of violation of the rights of the victims so it directed district police chief of Hathras to sent full report in detail for further necessary action. It may be mentioned that the cops only arrested one of the culprits that too when the local residents went on rampage and had ransacked the local police outpost besides torching several vehicles.