Want to see them hang to death: Unnao rape victim’s last words
| Date :08-Dec-2019 |
“SAVE me, I don’t want to die, I want to see them hang to death”.
NEW DELHI :
“SAVE me, I don’t want to die, I want to see them hang to death”. These are the last words of the 23-year-old rape victim from Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district to her family members and doctors before she died on Friday late night in a Delhi hospital. She was declared dead at 11.40 p.m. after she could not survive cardiac arrest at Safdarjung Hospital. “She was in pain. She had been pleading to save her,” said a senior doctor from the hospital. The victim was air-lifted to Delhi from Lucknow and admitted to the Safdarjung Hospital after she was set on fire allegedly by five persons, including rapists.
She had suffered 90 per cent burns. After coming to know about the death of the victim, Delhi Commission for Women chief, Swati Maliwal said: “I appeal to the Central and Uttar Pradesh Governments that the rapists in this case should be hanged within a month.” The victim was attacked outside the Sindupur village in Unnao when she was on her way to a court in Rae Bareli to attend a hearing in the rape case. She was abducted by the five men Harishankar Trivedi, Ram Kishore Trivedi, Umesh Bajpai, Shivam and Shubham Trivedi.
She was beaten, stabbed and burnt and was left to die. However, she stood up and walked up to a kilometre to a person who was working outside a house and sought help. She made a call to the police herself. She was rushed to a nearby hospital from where she was referred to the civil hospital in Lucknow where she was admitted in a plastic surgery burn unit. The victim’s statement was recorded there. In her statement, she named all the five accused and narrated the ordeal.
Out of the five persons, including two who were accused in the rape case, the Unnao rape survivor named, two have been arrested, the UP police said. She said that the accused Shivam and Shubham Trivedi had abducted and raped her and video-graphed the act. When the accused Shubham was released on bail while the probe in the matter was still on, he started chasing and threatening her. Thereafter, the victim and her family visited the local police station and filed a compliant against the accused. The police turned a deaf ear to the complaint. On Thursday, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said the Government will bear all expenses for treatment of the woman and also stated that he has directed DGP to closely investigate the matter.
Victim died of extensive burn injuries: Post-mortem report
NEW DELHI :
THE post-mortem of the Unnao rape victim showed that she died of extensive burn injuries, a senior doctor at the Safdarjung hospital said on Saturday. The 23-year-old woman was set ablaze on Thursday by five people, including two who are accused of raping her. She had suffered 90 per cent burns and was airlifted from Lucknow to the Delhi-based hospital where she died on Friday night. The doctor said,”According to the postmortem report the victim died of extensive burn injuries.” “There was no indication of the presence of any foreign body, poisoning or suffocation on the body of the woman during postmortem conducted this morning,” the doctor said. On Friday, Dr Shalab Kumar, Head of the Burn and Plastic Surgery Department at the Safdarjung hospital, had said, “Despite our best efforts, she did not survive. Her condition deteriorated towards the evening. She had a cardiac arrest around 11:10 pm. We tried to resuscitate her, but she passed away around 11:40 pm.”
The woman’s body is being taken to her village in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district in an ambulance. The brother of the Unnao rape victim said his sister will get justice when all the accused go to the place “where she has gone”. “She told me, brother please save me. I am very sad that I could not save her,” he told reporters on Saturday. He said the persons involved in the incident should be either killed in an encounter or hanged. They do not have the right to live. “We will go to Unnao from here. She has already been burnt by the accused persons and now, we will burry her,” he said. The woman died on a day four accused in the gangrape and murder case of a veterinary doctor were killed in an ‘encounter’ with Telangana police.