UP CM defends criminals who belong to his caste: Brinda Karat

CPM leader Brinda Karat has launched a scathing attack on the Yogi Adityanath government alleging that the state government shields criminals if they belong to his own caste. Karat also said that the government wants to conceal from its own responsibility and it is the most 'anti-women' government.

New Delhi: Days after a senior Uttar Pradesh police official claimed that the Hathras victim died due to her 'neck injury', CPM politburo member and former MP Brinda Karat on Saturday strongly demanded that the police officer should be sacked for making such a statement.

Karat said, "This is a reflection of the reality that in UP under Adityanath. It does not abide by the Constitution. There is only the caste code of Adityanath and his commitment to defend criminals if they belong to his caste."

"In Hathras case, the government is hanging the family of the victim," she stated.

Taking to ETV Bharat in an exclusive interview, Karat said, "The top police official in Aligarh said that the victim was not gang-raped. This man should be sacked immediately for making such a statement."

Quoting post-mortem report, ADG Prashant Kumar has recently said that the victim died due to her neck injury. "FSL report has not found sperm in samples, making it clear that some people twisted the matter to stir caste-based tension. Such people will be identified and legal action will be taken," Kumar has said. Karat also said that the victim has clearly stated that she was gang-raped when she was conscious. "When she was taken to the thana (police station) she was bleeding from her private parts. The clothes were stained with blood. She was not in a condition to speak. Was it not their responsibility to immediately have a test?

"A report was prepared after 10 days when she was referred to the Aligarh hospital," said Karat.

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Referring to the forensic report, Karat said that if you don't collect scientific evidence in 72 hours, you will not get any evidence.

"This Government wants to run away from its own responsibility by claiming that it has introduced a death penalty," she said, adding if it wants to save the criminal, whom are you going to hang?

Coming down heavily on Central and state government, Karat said that this incumbent government is a most anti-women government and Adityanath as a CM has no moral right, to remain in the post after the Hathras incident."

Terming the Hathras incident as the most horrific one, Karat said that in years of working and struggling for justice against the caste system and specifically justice for Dalit women, "I have never seen such open connivance of the government and police in subverting the process of justice."

"I found after our delegation met family members that from the beginning of the horrific incident till her death, police and administration has one agenda and that is to defend the accused in the case," she said.

A delegation of Left Front leaders recently visited the family of Hathras victim.

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