: Hathras gangrape: By disclosing identity of dead victim, BJP sinks to new low – and violates the law #IndiaNEWS The Bharatiya Janata Party has gone to astonishing lengths to try to cover up the mishandling

Hathras gangrape: By disclosing identity of dead victim, BJP sinks to new low – and violates the law #IndiaNEWS
The Bharatiya Janata Party has gone to astonishing lengths to try to cover up the mishandling of the gangrape and murder of a Dalit woman by upper-caste Thakur men in a village in the Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh.This has included the administration imposing a near-curfew on the village, thinly vieled threats to the family by a senior official and assaulting Opposition leaders. However, even by these standards, the saffron party hit a new low when on Friday, the head of its powerful IT cell, Amit Malviya, published a video that disclosed the identity of the victim.The graphic video tweeted by Malviya is not only insensitive and factually incorrect in the manner in which he framed the text – it violates Indian law.Under the Indian Penal Code, disclosing the identity of a rape victim is a crime punishable by a jail term of up to two years.The victim had alleged rape in a dying declaration recorded before a magistrate on September 22. Furthermore, the first information report has been filed under an IPC section that deals with gangrape. Graphic politicsIn the video, the victim can be seen in a state of shock stating that she was strangled since she resisted efforts at “zabaradasti??? (literally force) against her. In Hindi, the word “zabaradasti??? is...Read more

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