Hathras Case News Today

BJP MP Locket Chatterjee accuses crime against women during West Bengal panchayat polls, sheds tears.

Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday slammed the Uttar Pradesh government for challenging a high court order to relocate and provide employment to the family of the Hathras woman found dead after her alleged rape.

A bench of Justices Attau Rahman Masoodi and Renu Agarwal granted bail while taking into account the period Rehman has spent in jail and that Kappan and Alam have already been granted bail.

The Hathras case, as it became known both in national and international media, played out in the exact same fashion as other cases of violence against Dalits, especially Dalit women, play out across the country.

Four persons were accused in the alleged rape and murder case of a 19-year-old Dalit girl in Hathras

Since the victim was talking and speaking for eight days after the incident, it cannot be said that the intention of the accused was definitely to kill her, the court said.

However, the main suspect was convicted for offences under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and the Indian Penal Code.

The court held Sandeep (20) held guilty under section 304 of (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Indian Peal Code and sections of the SC/ST Act

A court in Uttar Pradesh Court on Thursday acquitted three persons and convicted one in the Hathras rape and murder case of a 19-year-old Dalit girl.

Sandeep, the sole convict in the Hathras case in which a 19-year-old Dalit girl was killed, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a special court in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday.