UP lynching case: Rahul meets Dalit victim's family; claims govt 'threatening' them

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 Rahul Gandhi meets Dalit victim's family; claims govt 'threatening' them

Rahul Gandhi met the household of Hariom Valmiki

NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha person of absorption Rahul Gandhi connected Friday met the household of Hariom Valmiki, the Dalit antheral who was lynched successful his constituency, Raebareli. After gathering the family, the Congress person made a large claim, saying the authorities threatened the victim's household against gathering him. He said the Congress party volition "try the champion to supply each imaginable assistance to the family", adding that wherever determination volition beryllium "atrocities against Dalits successful the country, Congress volition beryllium determination and we volition supply each imaginable assistance and combat for justice."Valmiki (40) was allegedly lynched by villagers who mistook him for a thief during a nighttime vigil astatine astir 1 americium connected October 2 amid rumours that a pack was utilizing drones for surveillance to people houses for robberies.

"This morning, the authorities threatened the household against gathering me... It's not important whether the victims' household meets maine oregon not, but what is important is that these radical are not criminals. They person committed nary mistake... I met the deceased's household and listened to them. Congress Party and I volition effort our champion to supply each imaginable assistance to the family... Wherever determination volition beryllium atrocities against Dalits successful the country, Congress volition beryllium determination and we volition supply each imaginable assistance and combat for justice," Rahul Gandhi told the property aft gathering the Valmiki family.

Referring to the termination of a

Haryana

officer, Rahul Gandhi said: "A transgression has been committed against them (Valmiki's family), and it seems arsenic if they are the criminals."Rahul futher claimed that the household was being threatened and was not allowed to spell retired of their house. "A Dalit serviceman committed termination a fewer days ago. I went there, and contiguous I person travel here. The household did not perpetrate the crime. A transgression has been committed against them, and it seems arsenic if they are the criminals.

They are not being allowed to spell retired of their house," the Congress person said.He sought enactment against the perpetrators, urging the UP authorities that the accused "should not beryllium protected"."They are being threatened. All they are asking for is justice. Our lad had been killed. The execution is recorded connected video. We are asking for justice... There is simply a miss successful determination who needs to beryllium operated on, but she is incapable to get it done due to the fact that the authorities has locked them in. Atrocities, murders and rapes are being committed against Dalits successful the full nation. I privation to inquire the CM that they should beryllium served justice. They should beryllium respected.

Action should beryllium taken against the perpetrators and they should not beryllium protected," the Reabareli MP said.

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