Boolgarhi, a village in the Hathras of Uttar Pradesh, was expectantly calm on Tuesday after a 19-year-old Dalit woman died in a hospital in New Delhi, who was gang-raped and brutalized a fortnight ago.
To prevent the conflict from flaring into violence, the police kept a vigilant eye on the village that has a mixed population of Dalits and upper-caste Thakurs.
The death of the woman at the Safdarjung hospital in New Delhi triggered protests by the Congress party and other opposition parties, who said the gang-rape was another indication of how much law and order had worsened under the control of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) in Uttar Pradesh.
“No one wants to talk about this incident. We never thought that this incident was going to become so high. “We hoped she would survive when the girl was moved to a good hospital,” said a citizen of Boolgarhi, a village of only 750 residents.
The 19-year-old and her mother went to the fields on the 14th of September, and shortly after, the young woman went missing.
She was then discovered raped, battered, and tortured, and her tongue was cut after she bit on it when, according to the police report, the rapists attempted to strangle her.
All four suspects were arrested; members of their families are in a state of shock. Uttar Pradesh police and the Provincial Armed Constabulary patrolled Boolgarhi, where, for all the wrong reasons, local residents watched their village make it to TV news titles.
Piyush Mordia, Inspector General (Aligarh Range), stationed himself at Chandapa Kotwali. We are devoted, “Mordia said,” to maintaining law and order.
The rape victim was first admitted to Aligarh Muslim University’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, from there she was moved to New Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital when her condition did not improve. On Tuesday morning, she died.
The news of the woman’s death, who used to live in a house opposite that of the accused, shocked the suspects’ families. In their homes, the women and elders locked themselves up from inside.
Six years earlier, one of the defendants was married and had two children, but his wife left the village with the children. There are two other unmarried suspects.
The fourth suspect was transferred from Agra to the village. Back in the city of Hathras, demonstrations were occurring all over.
Staff from the Congress Party, who carried out a candle march, assured Hathras ki Beti (daughter of Hathras) justice.
