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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Hathras was no exception, at least 4 ‘rape’ victims were ‘forcibly cremated’ by police -Bismee Taskin and Tanushree Pandey

Hathras was no exception, at least 4 ‘rape’ victims were ‘forcibly cremated’ by police -Bismee Taskin and Tanushree Pandey

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published Published on Oct 2, 2021   modified Modified on Oct 4, 2021

-ThePrint.in

In each of the 4 cases, which took place between September 2020 and January 2021, families allege they were under pressure from police to quickly cremate the bodies.

New Delhi: This Thursday marked one year since the victim of an alleged gang rape and murder in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras was forcibly cremated by the authorities in the dead of night, amid protests by her family.

The forcible cremation of the 20-year-old Dalit woman, amid heavy police deployment, and the visuals of the body being consigned to the flames without the family’s consent sparked outrage across the country, and the Allahabad High Court even took suo motu cognisance of the matter.

The family told the high court in an additional affidavit that they wanted to conduct the woman’s funeral in the morning, and wanted to bury the body instead of cremating it because she was unmarried.

But in the weeks and months since this horrifying case, there have been at least four more instances of rape victims’ bodies — especially those from Dalit or OBC backgrounds — being forcibly cremated by authorities, and not every one of these has been highlighted as much as the Hathras case. Investigations by ThePrint have revealed at least four other cases in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and capital Delhi.

Experts on such issues like former top cops and activists say this is increasingly becoming an “unsaid norm”, and is a violation of Article 21 of the Constitution which guarantees dignity in life and death.

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ThePrint.in, 2 October, 2021, https://theprint.in/india/hathras-was-no-exception-at-least-4-rape-victims-were-forcibly-cremated-by-police/743817/?fbclid=IwAR0CZgYDpyLeuR2su7C86jzq2OLX6-r0E1Fzyi_jholuvxwzHyXwKfeGqXQ


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