The National Commission for Women on Thursday wrote to Uttar Pradesh Director-General of Police Hitesh Chandra Awasthi demanding an evidence on why the Hathras gang rape victim was cremated in the nighttime and in the absence of her household.
“The NCW has asked the administration to send a reply on the same at the earliest,” it mentioned in a assertion.
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The victim’s household have mentioned that regardless of their appeals to the District Magistrate for permission to take the physique house for final rites, the police went forward with the cremation whereas most of her members of the family have been away.
The NCW added that it had earlier taken suo motu cognisance of the crime and demanded an Action Taken Report from the Uttar Pradesh police, which it acquired on the identical day.
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