Hathras rape-murder case: UP Court acquits 3 of four accused; rape charges dropped
March 02, 2023 16:43 ISTThe court announced that out of the four accused, Sandeep, Ravi, Luv Kush and Ramu, only Sandeep has been held guilty of the crime.
The court announced that out of the four accused, Sandeep, Ravi, Luv Kush and Ramu, only Sandeep has been held guilty of the crime.
The victim had said in her dying declaration that she had been gang-raped by the accused but the Uttar Pradesh Police denied that rape had taken place.The victim had said in her dying declaration that she had been gang-raped by the accused but the Uttar Pradesh Police denied that rape had taken place.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed a chargesheet in the Hathras gangrape and murder case against four accused in the Competent Court.
The Hathras case involves a girl who was allegedly raped and died of injuries in September. The victim was cremated in the night near her home on September 30.
Members of the CBI team probing the Hathras rape and murder incident picked up a shirt that had "red stains" during a search operation carried out in the house of Luv Kush Sikarwar, one of the accused.
The Supreme Court Thursday said the Allahabad High Court be allowed to monitor the Hathras case in which a girl was allegedly brutally raped and died of injuries.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team on Tuesday reached the crime spot where the 19-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped and assaulted in Hathras.
Hathras district magistrate Parveen Kumar Laxar has owned full responsibility for the decision related to holding the cremation of the 19-year-old victim in the night.
The Hathras gangrape victim's family is appearing before the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court to give their statements on the "forced cremation" of the 19-year-old girl who died in Delhi's Safdarjung Hopsital, two weeks after she was gang-raped and assaulted brutally by four men.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday attacked the Yogi Adityanath dispensation over the death of a Dalit woman from Uttar Pradesh's Hathras after being allegedly gang-raped, saying the chief minister and his police say no one was raped because for them and many other Indians, she was "no one".
A division bench comprising Justice Prakash Padia and Justice Pritinker Diwaker noted that state government had already been directed to file affidavits clarifying its stand in the entire case by the Supreme Court.
While the Ahmedabad Municipal Servants' Association (AMSA), the apex body of sanitation workers in the city, claimed their one-day "strike" to be successful, a senior civic official said that normal work was not affected.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the UP government to come up with an affidavit stipulating a witness protection plan for the Hathras victim’s family and other witnesses in the gruesome gangrape-murder case.
Hathras Superintendent of Police Vineet Jaiswal said that two women sub-inspectors and six women constables have been stationed at the victim's house.
Uttar Pradesh: Amid outrage over its handling of the Hathras gangrape and murder case, the Yogi government has claimed that certain groups were using the case to defame the Yogi administration and stoke sectarian violence.
Bhim Army leader Chandrashekhar Azad and 400-500 unidentified persons have been booked for the violation of law in the wake of their visit to a village in Hathras district to meet the family of a gang rape-murder victim, official sources said on Monday.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh lashed out at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday as the ink was thrown at him in Hathras by a miscreant.
The Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday filed 19 FIRs in connection with the Hathras case. Prashant Kumar, Additional Director General of Police, law and order, claimed a pre-planned conspiracy to push the state into turmoil.
Samajwadi Party activists created a ruckus outside the victim's village in Hathras. After which the police had to lathicharge to control the situation.
On Friday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath suspended Hathras SP Vikrant Vir and four other policemen. Officials said the action has been taken on the basis of a preliminary inquiry report of the SIT.
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