Hathras (Uttar Pradesh): Seema Kushwaha, lawyer of the 2012 Delhi rape victim, known as ‘Nirbhaya’, will now fight the case of the 19-year-old Dalit woman who was gang-raped here. Seema Kushwaha tried to meet the victim’s family Thursday, but was prevented from doing so by the police.
“I will not leave Hathras without meeting the family. They have requested me to stand as their legal counsel. However, the administration is not allowing me to meet them,” Seema told reporters. She said that she was in touch with the victim’s brother.
Seema was the family lawyer of the 23-year-old paramedical student who was gang-raped on a moving bus on the night of December 16, 2012. Nirbhaya was gang-raped by six people, including a juvenile in Delhi. ‘Nirbhaya’ died at a Singapore hospital later.
All four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case – Akshay Singh Thakur, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma, and Mukesh Singh – were hanged to death in March, this year.
The 19-year-old Hathras girl had succumbed Tuesday to assault injuries in Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital. She was brought to the Delhi treatment facility Monday from the Aligarh Muslim University Medical College.
The government has formed a three-member SIT to probe the case and said the matter will be heard in the fast track court. All four accused in the case have been arrested.
Additional Director General (law and order) Prashant Kumar has said that the post-mortem, which was conducted by a team of doctors in Delhi, has established that the death was caused by the trauma of her neck injury and there was no confirmation of rape.
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