Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale on Friday said that he will meet UP CM Yogi Adityanath and Governor Anandiben Patel in Lucknow tomorrow to discuss the Hathras incident.
He also demanded that all four accused should be hanged till death.
A 19-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly assaulted by a group of men on September 14 while she was working in the fields with her family in Boolgarhi village in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh. The victim died in Safdarjung Hospital on Tuesday.
The government has formed a three-member SIT to probe the case and said the matter will be heard in the fast track court. All four accused in the case have been arrested.
The senior police official said that the postmortem, which was conducted by a team of doctors in Delhi, has established that the death was caused by the trauma of her neck injury.