Hathras Victim's Mother claims Her Daughter was Strangulated, Doesn't Mention Rape!

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In reference to the Hathras case, videos of the victim's mother have come to light, also widely spread on social media, in which she gives her account and states that the accused strangulated her daughter, citing age-old enmity among the families. While she repeats in the video that her daughter was strangulated, she nowhere mentions any sign of rape/sexual assault.

This statement in the video comes even as the autopsy report in the case also did not cite rape, following which the ADG issued a statement to that effect, amid shock, horror and despondency around the nation and especially around Hathras over what has since the start believed to have been a gruesome gangrape, with the victim later succumbing.

Here's The Video Of the Victim's Mother, Watch and Listen Carefully to what she says.

Victim's Mother's Statement

"We went there to get grass. They got into a scuffle there. I was a bit far away, they came from behind pulled from the hair and dragged her through the Bajra field. They strangulated her so badly that she can barely speak," the victim's mother says in the video.

Four people said to be of the 'upper caste' - Sandeep, his uncle Ravi, their friend Lavkush and Ramu were arrested in connection with the Hathras case.

The mother is seen in the video saying only one dragged the victim into the field and strangulated her due to the families' enmity, before she (the mother) could intervene. She also named the attacker's father.

"He came back to take revenge and settle old scores, dragged her through the Bajra field," she can be heard saying.

Another person can be heard asking her who all were involved in the crime, to which the mother answered, "There was only one boy", divulging a name - "Sandeep, Thakur's son (referring to the same person and not naming the attacker directly)".

She is seen speaking more about the enmity between the families and said that the boy's family had 'brutally' attacked her father-in-law 'some 15-16 years ago' and 'split his head open'.

"15-16 years ago, back then, they beat my father-in-law and there has been bad blood between us since then. They have threatened us constantly saying that they will kill us one by one," she said when asked about the enmity.