Lucknow . The Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh Police has been entrusted with the investigation into the alleged conspiracy to incite ethnic violence behind the Hathras case. A senior STF official said on Thursday that a team of STF would soon go to the spot and collect the facts. The official said that STF has so far received four cases, out of which two have been registered in Hathras and one each in Aligarh and Mathura. The case registered in Mathura is related to the arrest of four people who have alleged links with the Popular Front of India (PFI).
Significantly, as politics intensified over the Hathras case, the state government had accused the conspiracy of ethnic violence behind the incident. Police had registered a total of 19 cases against unknown people in various districts of the state in this regard. The police arrested four people, including a Kerala journalist, Siddique Kappan, for conspiring to incite ethnic violence and registered a case against them at the Matra police station in Mathura for sedition and other charges. It is known that on September 14, a 19-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly gang-raped by four upper-caste youth in a village in Hathras district. The victim later died while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Delhi. The opposition attacked the government strongly in this matter.
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