Family members, relatives of the victim and residents of Purana Nangal have been protesting since August 2 demanding the death penalty for the accused.
A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde, however, said during his visit he shall not give any interview to the media, including social media.
In July this year during the political crisis in Rajasthan, Mayawati’s BSP issued a whip asking six MLAs, who had won on its ticket in 2016, to vote against the Ashok Gehlot’s Congress government in the assembly.
In the video Amit Malviya had tweeted on October 2, the Hathras victim could be heard saying that she was strangled when she resisted the accused. Her face was visible too and the video was shared by many Twitter users.
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had been manhandled while they were marching towards the Hathras victim's house to meet the aggrieved family.
A group of NRI Ambedkarites came together under the banner of Ambedkar International Mission (AIM) to protest the atrocity. With placards reading "Dalit Lives Matter" nearly 50 people took to the streets at Times Square and in front of the United Nations Headquarters in New York city.
With 59,853 cases, UP reported the highest number of crimes against women in 2019. This accounts for 14.7 per cent of such incidents across the country. In UP, 18 per cent rape victims were Dalit women. In Rajasthan, it was 9 per cent.
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were detained by Uttar Pradesh police on October 1, after the former was allegedly shoved and pushed to the ground by police personnel, as they made their way to the Hathras district from New Delhi.
Additional Director General (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar said on October 1: "The postmortem report says the victim died due to her neck injury. The Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) report has not found sperm in the samples.”
The anger over the gang-rape and murder of a Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district may resonate in neighboring Bihar.
The Dalit woman, who died in a Delhi hospital a fortnight after she was gangraped, was cremated in the early hours of September 30 in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh. Her family alleged the local police forced them to conduct the last rites in the dead of the night.
Instead of protecting the victim and her family, your government became complicit in depriving her of every single human right, even in death. You have no moral right to continue as Chief Minister, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi wrote on twitter demanding resignation of Yogi Adityanath