SP workers booked for protesting against Hathras incident in Muzaffarnagar

Supporters of the Samajwadi party during a silent protest against the alleged gang-rape of a 19 year-old woman by four men in Bool Garhi village of Uttar Pradesh state and various issues, in Allahabad on October 2, 2020. . - Indian police have been ordered to provide protection to the "untouchable" family of a woman allegedly gang-raped and killed by four upper-caste men, as her brother said they feared for their lives. The 19-year-old was attacked in mid-September and died this week, sparking outrage and shining the spotlight again on the alarming levels of sexual violence against Indian women, particularly if they are low-caste.Credit: AFP

Samajwadi Party workers, including its youth wing vice president Gaurav Jain and district media in-charge Sajid Hasan, were booked for violation of prohibitory orders in Civil Lines area here, police said on Saturday.

They demonstrated and burned an effigy representing the Uttar Pradesh government in protest against the death of a Dalit woman from Hathras on Friday evening, SHO D K Tyagi said.

The 19-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly raped at a village in Hathras by four men on September 14. After her condition deteriorated, she was referred to the Delhi's Safdarjung hospital where she breathed her last on Tuesday.

She was cremated in the early hours of Wednesday, with her family alleging the local police forced them to conduct the last rites in the dead of the night.

Local police officers, however, had said the cremation was carried out "as per the wishes of the family".

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