What difference suspending some pawns would make: Priyanka on Hathras case

By Bold News Online Desk On Oct 2, 2020

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After the Hathras SP and four other policemen were suspended over the gangrape-murder case of a Dalit woman, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday asked what difference suspending “some pawns” would make and demanded Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s resignation.

Tagging Adityanath, Priyanka Gandhi asked what difference would suspending “some pawns” make. “On whose order Hathras victim, her family, was made to suffer. The phone records of Hathras DM and SP should be made public. The chief minister should not back off from his responsibility,” the Congress general secretary said in a tweet in Hindi.

.@myogiadityanath जी कुछ मोहरों को सस्पेंड करने से क्या होगा? हाथरस की पीड़िता, उसके परिवार को भीषण कष्ट किसके ऑर्डर पर दिया गया? हाथरस के डीएम, एसपी के फोन रिकार्ड्स पब्लिक किए जाएँ। मुख्यमंत्रीज अपनी जिम्मेदारी से हटने की कोशिश न करें। देश देख रहा है @myogiadityanath इस्तीफा दो

— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) October 2, 2020

The country is watching, chief minister Adityanath tender your resignation, she said. Besides Vikrant Vir, the other suspended policemen are Circle Officer Ramshabd, Inspector Dinesh Kumar Verma, Sub-Inspector Jagveer Singh and Head Constable Mahesh Pal, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi said.

The 19-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly raped at a village in Hathras by four men on September 14. After her condition deteriorated, she was referred to the Delhi’s Safdarjung hospital where she breathed her last on Tuesday. She was cremated in the early hours of Wednesday, with her family alleging the local police forced them to conduct the last rites in the dead of the night. But the police said the cremation was done “as per the wishes of the family”. ( Source Social Media Site Twitter)