In the dead of the night, the dead body of the 19-year-old Dalit woman who was gangraped by four upper caste men was forcibly burnt. The Uttar Pradesh police did not let the distraught family see their daughter for the last time.
They begged to take a last look at her but were locked up in a room and the case took another tragic turn.
A disturbing sequence of events was captured in visuals wherein the victim’s family was seen arguing with the cops, female relatives throwing themselves on the hood of the ambulance carrying the body and the mother crying her eyes out as she pleaded to take a last look at her daughter.
The woman's family said that they wanted to perform the funeral as per Hindu traditions and despite their protest, the body was burnt by policemen.
"We couldn't see our daughter's face for the last time," the family said.
The 19-year-old Dalit woman was not only gangraped and murdered, but was also denied dignity in death.
After her death, she was killed again by a ruthless government and a systematic oppression by the hands of the society.?
According to the Hindu traditions, the body remains at home until it is cremated, which is usually within 24 hours of death. The body is not cremated after the sunset.??
In this particular case, even when the body of the victim was on its way, the district authorities and police started preparations at the woman's village for a late-night funeral. Logs of wood were arranged, lights of the cremation ground were switched on and the road to the victim's home was heavily barricaded.
The family was locked inside their house because they opposed the cremation and wished to give a proper funeral to their daughter.
The sheer torture that was done to the girl is unspeakable and beyond humanity.