Hathras SP, 4 others suspended; village sealed off for second day
SIT Wants Narco Test, Polygraph Of Cops, Accused & Complainants
Anuja.Jaiswal @timesgroup.com
Hathras:03.10.2020
The village in UP’s Hathras where the 19-year old Dalit girl was allegedly gang-raped before she died was off limits to the media and politicians for the second day in a row. Many who tried to enter and reach out to the bereaved family were manhandled, pushed to the ground and forced off on Friday.
Later in the evening, based on what the SIT suggested in its preliminary report, chief minister Yogi Adityanath suspended Hathras SP Vikrant Veer, three cops posted at Chanda police station at the time of the incident — Sadabad circle officer Ram Shabd, station house officer Dinesh Kumar Verma and sub-inspector Jagveer Singh — along with head moharrir (clerk) Mahesh Pal. Shamli SP Vineet Jaiswal will take over as Hathras police chief.
The SIT also recommended that polygraph and narco tests be conducted on everyone involved in the case — police, the accused and members of the victim’s family.
There is one main access point to the village and a tertiary route from behind farmlands leading up to a cluster of Dalit houses. Both had been barricaded, with six cops at one and 15 at another.
Police stopped a TOI team from entering the village around 11am, warning against “moving any further” and saying they had “strict instructions from higher authorities” to not let anyone pass.
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