In the midst of countrywide outrage against the lawlessness of Uttar Pradesh that saw consecutive episodes of monstrosities against women in Hathras and Balrampur, CM Yogi Adityanath on Friday said exemplary punishments will be given to those who even think of disrespecting women.
The resistance ensemble requesting the resignation of Yogi Adityanath got stronger after Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi on Thursday were arrested while heading to Hathras. On Friday, a Trinamool delegation which was going to Hathras to meet the family members of the deceased Dalit woman was manhandled by UP Police.
Pummeling the Yogi government, Mayawati requested renunciation of the CM. “I encourage the Central government to send him to his place – Gorakhnath Math. If he doesn’t like the temple, he should be given the task of Ram Temple construction,” Mayawati said.
On September 14, a 19 year-old woman was purportedly assaulted by four men. Subsequent to being at first treated at Aligarh Medical College and Hospital, she was brought to Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital where she breathed her last on September 29. Hathras police insisted on a hurried funeral and the last rites were done at 2.30am without the consent of the family.
Close behind the Hathras occurrence, another woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur passed away in the wake of being purportedly assaulted by two men. On September 30, a group of men forcibly put the victim in their car, injected her, and reportedly raped her. Then they sent her home in a rickshaw. She was rushed to a local hospital which advised the family to take her to Lucknow. The woman died on the way.