India / Hathras rape victim was being harassed for months by accused: Mother

Hathras: The horror of the Hathras gang-rape seems to be unending as several revelations come to the fore, days after the girl was forcibly cremated by the Uttar Pradesh Police. According to a recent development, the 19-year-old Dalit girl was being harassed by the accused for the last four months. 

According to the murdered woman’s mother, two of the four men arrested for the gang rape and killing would follow her daughter and block her path when she would go out for any work.

“Sandeep and Luv Kush would sometimes chase her. On other occasions, they would spread out their hands and block her path if she tried to go past them,” she said.

Over the past few months, the young woman started refusing to go out alone, she said. “If she needed to buy even a soap, she would take her sister-in-law along with her,” said the mother.

Victim refused to step out alone 

The woman said that her daughter had refused to step out of home alone due to the harassment she was being subjected to. She added that the teenager used to take her sister-in-law with her even when she went out to buy soap. 

The girl was allegedly harassed by the accused on one of the days when her sister-in-law was accompanying her. Noticing the harassment, the sister-in-law reprimanded the accused and said that she would get them jailed. The threat, however, did not dissuade the accused from harassing the 19-year-old Dalit girl. 

But Rakesh Singh, the grandfather of Sandeep and the uncle to Luv Kush, denied the allegations. “They never protested against any such molestation. They never complained about it. These are all lies,” said Singh.

The youngest of five siblings, the victim had studied only till class four. “She couldn’t read or write sentences, but she loved our buffaloes. She was a beautiful girl who never even used any make-up,” said her mother.