(ANSA) - NEW DELHI, 01 OCT - Wave of protests all over India, with students and women's organizations demonstrating with the slogan "justice for the victim of Hathras", the 19-year-old Dalit died at the Safdarjung hospital in New Delhi, after suffering , two weeks ago, a rape and brutal violence.
The Indian Express newspaper writes that, according to the girl's family, the police had her body quickly cremated at dawn, without explanation, after taking it back to Hathras, her native village, in Uttar Pradesh.
"We had asked to take her home for the last time for funeral problems", say the brothers: "They prevented us from hiding all the evidence against her tormentors."
In the village of Hathras the streets and the market were blocked all morning, with a large array of police facing the protesters.
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