Topic: Rape

Opposition leaders, Dalit organizations, rights activists, students, and women groups came together at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar to protest against the gang-rape and murder of the 19-year-old Dalit woman by upper-caste Hindu men in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh.

Bhim Army Chief and Dalit leader Chandrashekhar Azad gave a call to assemble at Jantar Mantar at 5 pm on Friday from where they would start marching towards India Gate.

During this distressing time, more than 20 Ambedkarite organizations who work outside India are seething with rage, pain and sadness at the brutal caste hate crime against a 19 year old Dalit woman in Hathras who was raped and murdered by upper-caste Hindu men.

Congress former chief Rahul Gandhi and current General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra who were heading to Hathras, were stopped by authorities on Yamuna Expressway. They were on their way to meet the family of the 19-year-old Dalit woman who died after being gang-raped by four upper-caste Hindu men.

Opposition parties in the country outraged over the dead-of-night cremation by Uttar Pradesh police of the Dalit woman who died of horrific injuries after being gang-raped and tortured by upper-caste Hindu men.

Parents of the 19-year-old Dalit woman, who died in a Delhi hospital a fortnight after she was gang-raped in Hathras by four upper-caste Hindu men, said that the Uttar Pradesh police forcibly cremated her daughter's body in the middle of the night - a little after 3 am Wednesday.