Hathras Advocate Seema Kushwaha, who had advocated for the 2012 Nirbhaya rape case which shook the country, will now contest the case of Hathras victim. Seema tried to meet the victim’s family on Thursday but the police stopped her from visiting.
He told reporters, “I will not leave Hathras without meeting the family. He had requested me to become his lawyer but the administration is not allowing me to meet him.”
Seema said that she is in touch with the victim’s brother.
Seema Kushwaha was a family lawyer of a 23-year-old paramedical student, who was gang-raped in a moving bus by six people, including a teenager, in Delhi on the night of December 16, 2012.
Nirbhaya later died in a hospital in Singapore.
All four convicts of the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case – Akshay Singh Thakur, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Singh – were hanged in March this year.
A 19-year-old girl from Hathras succumbed at Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi on Tuesday.
The government has set up a three-member SIT to investigate the matter and has said that the case will be heard in a fast track court. All the four accused in the case have been arrested.
Additional Director General (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar has said that the post-mortem was done by a team of doctors in Delhi, which showed that the girl died due to neck injury and there was no confirmation of the rape.
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