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The 23-year-old woman was allegedly raped last year at gunpoint
Lucknow:
The family of the 23-year-old woman who died late Saturday night after being set on fire by the men accused of raping her has agreed to carry out last rites and bury her body. The body is currently at her home in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh. The family had refused to do until Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visited them to assure them their demands would be met. It took the senior-most government official of the division, who met them today, two hours to get them to change their minds.
The Uttar Pradesh government has paid compensation of Rs 25 lakh and promised a pucca (brick) house will be built for the family. They have also been granted police security to protect against similar attacks. The state has also promised it will fulfil any other demands that will be made by the family.
Earlier the sister of the young woman, who suffered 90 per cent burns in a ghastly attack that occurred while she was on her way to court to testify against her rapists, said she wanted a government job to help support her parents.
The young woman died of a cardiac arrest at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital, where she had been airlifted on Saturday. The main accused in the case had just been released on bail a week earlier.
The young woman’s father told NDTV on Saturday that he wanted justice for his daughter.
Heavy police presence has been deployed around the young woman’s home village.
The Yogi Adityanath government has been slammed by opposition leaders, including Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Bahujan Samaj Party’s Mayawati.
Ms Gandhi Vadra, who visited the victim’s family, was quoted by news agency ANI as saying, “There is no place for women here”.
Former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav a protested outside the Assembly in Lucknow demanding the resignation of Yogi Adityanath. “The Chief Minister had said in this very assembly, ‘apradhiyon ko thok diya jayega’ (convicts will be shot)… but they could not save the life of a daughter,” he said.
Mayawati, also a former Chief Minister, alleged “not a single day goes by without a case of crime against women in Uttar Pradesh.”
With input from ANI
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