Hathras: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced financial assistance of Rs. 25 Lakhs to the family members of the gang raped victim of Hathras. According to the official sources Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday spoke to the father of a 19 year old gang raped woman, who died after two weeks. CM also assured the victim’s father that the government will took stringent action against all the accused.

The state government has also announced a government job in the capacity of a school teacher for a family member of the deceased, a house under the government scheme, and the trial in a fast-track court. The Dalit woman, who died in a Delhi hospital a fortnight after she was gang-raped, was cremated in the early hours of Wednesday. Her family alleged the local police forced them to conduct the last rites in the dead of the night. However, local police officers claimed the cremation was carried out “as per the wishes of the family” and the news regarding the cremation was “incorrect”.

On September 14, the woman had gone to the fields with her mother and went missing soon after. She was found later, beaten and tortured, her tongue cut as she bit it when the accused attempted to strangle her. She was first admitted to Aligarh Muslim University’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital and then shifted to Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi on Monday.