हालातों को परखने में फेल हुए अफसर, बदइंतजामी की वजह से मची भगदड़… हाथरस हादसे पर SIT की रिपोर्ट

हालातों को परखने में फेल हुए अफसर, बदइंतजामी की वजह से मची भगदड़… हाथरस हादसे पर SIT की रिपोर्ट

हाथरस हादसे को लेकर पुलिस कई पहलुओं पर जांच कर रही है. इस मामले में दाखिल की गई SIT रिपोर्ट में कहा गया है कि भोले बाबा के सत्संग में मची भगदड़ लापरवाही और बदइंतजामी का नतीजा था. साथ ही इस बात का भी जिक्र है कि कार्यक्रम की परमिशन लेने के दौरान आयोजन समिति … Read more

Hathras stampede: Bodies of all victims identified, handed over to kin: District Magistrate

Hathras stampede: Bodies of all victims identified, handed over to kin: District Magistrate

A man named Vinod (in white) along with his sons performs last rites of his family members who were killed in a stampede during a ‘satsang’ on July 2, in Hathras on July 4, 2024. Vinod’s mother Jaya Manti (70), wife Rajkumari (40) and daughter Bhumi (10), who had gone to attend Bhole Baba’s satsang … Read more

Hathras case: Fresh PIL in SC seeks case under SC/ST Act against cops, officials & probe by STF

Hathras case: Fresh PIL in SC seeks case under SC/ST Act against cops, officials & probe by STF

NEW DELHI: A fresh PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court in the Hathras incident, in which a Dalit girl was allegedly raped and died of injuries, seeking registration of criminal case under SC/ST Act against police personnel, medical staff and other government officials involved in the case as also a probe by a … Read more

Hathras case: Victim’s kin urges Allahabad High Court to shift case out of UP

Hathras case: Victim’s kin urges Allahabad High Court to shift case out of UP

LUCKNOW: The family of the alleged gangrape and murder Hathras victim demanded in the high court hearing on Monday that the trial be shifted out of Uttar Pradesh and security be provided to it until the final conclusion of the case. Until then, it said, the court should issue necessary directions to ensure the findings … Read more

Hathras case: CBI re-registers the case; time lapse poses a challenge

Hathras case: CBI re-registers the case; time lapse poses a challenge

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation faces a challenging task ahead after taking over the Hathras case on Sunday, four weeks after the alleged gang rape that left a 19-year-old girl dead. The CBI has re-registered the case with charges of gang-rape and murder. The probe will be headed by Seema Pahuja, a deputy … Read more

Women MPs, MLAs from UP condemn treatment of Hathras victim’s family

Women MPs, MLAs from UP condemn treatment of Hathras victim’s family

NEW DELHI: Quite a few women members of parliament (MPs) and the legislative assembly (MLAs) from Uttar Pradesh, cutting across party lines, have criticised the state government’s treatment of the Hathras rape victim’s family, and said that the Yogi Adityanath administration should take corrective measures to ensure it is not repeated. ET spoke to five … Read more

Hathras victim’s family wants judicial probe, suspension of DM: Priyanka Gandhi

Hathras victim’s family wants judicial probe, suspension of DM: Priyanka Gandhi

New Delhi: After meeting the Hathras victim‘s family, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Saturday listed their demands which included a judicial inquiry through the Supreme Court and suspension of the district magistrate. Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi met the family and declared that they will fight for ensuring justice to the Dalit woman … Read more

View: Only a sustained project of strengthening democracy can prevent incidents like Hathras

View: Only a sustained project of strengthening democracy can prevent incidents like Hathras

How do we account for frequent rapes, especially of Dalit women, and callous, often criminal, police response to the rapes, leading to impunity rather than punishment of rapists, in our democracy where people vote to elect governments and hold them accountable? Caste and patriarchy are readily blamed for the phenomenon. After 70 years of working … Read more

Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka meet Hathras victim’s family, say no power can stifle their voice

Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka meet Hathras victim’s family, say no power can stifle their voice

Lucknow: Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday evening met the family of the Hathras victim, declaring they will fight for justice to the Dalit woman who died after being allegedly gang-raped. “We will fight against injustice, and fight till justice is done,” Priyanka Gandhi told reporters after the meeting that lasted … Read more

View: Perpetrators of sexual violence, not victims, must be kept at the centre of investigations

View: Perpetrators of sexual violence, not victims, must be kept at the centre of investigations

On November 27, 2014, after a five-month probe, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) closed a case of alleged rape and murder of two teenage girls reported on May 27, 2014, in Katra, a village in western Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district. The searing image of the two bodies hanging from a mango tree with villagers … Read more