Uttar Pradesh: Two weeks after the murder of a young woman who was “gang-raped and tortured” in Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh triggering widespread protests across India, a senior UP police officer has said that forensic report has revealed that the 19-year-old woman who succumbed to her injuries at a Delhi hospital was “not raped”.
Citing a forensic science laboratory (FSL) report, ADG (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar said the “cause of her death is an injury on the neck and trauma due to it”.
“The report of the FSL has also come. It says clearly that samples did not have sperm. It makes clear that there was no rape or gang rape,” Kumar said, according to a report by news agency PTI. “Even the woman in her statement to police did not mention about rape but talked about ‘marpeet’ (beating) only,” he said.
“For disturbing social harmony and create caste violence, some persons wrongly presented facts,” the UP police officer said.
“Police took immediate action in the case and now we will identify those who tried to disturb social harmony and create caste violence,” the ADG added, stressing that people “distorted facts” in the media.
On September, the 19-year-old woman was reportedly attacked while she was out cutting grass in Hathras. The attackers “pulled her into a field with her shawl, sexually assaulted her and tried to strangle her”.
Later, the woman was found by her family naked, bleeding and paralysed, her tongue cut and her spine broken.
She was taken to hospital in the city of Aligarh and this week she was transferred to a facility in Delhi, where she died from her injuries on Tuesday morning.
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