Police take away the father and brother of the 19-year-old Hathras victim from Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi, after persuading them to end a dharna on Tuesday. (Express photo: Tashi Tobgyal)
Around 7 am, the 28-year-old’s phone rang. It was a call the family had been dreading for days. “It was my father, he said she was dead… Just like that, my sister is gone. We were up all night, praying for her recovery,” he said, crying.
On Tuesday morning, the 19-year-old Dalit woman who had been assaulted and allegedly gangraped by four upper-caste men in Hathras district, Uttar Pradesh, on September 14, died at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital….
