Protests in India after family of Hathras gang rape victim alleges police cremated body without consent
NEW DELHI: Protests sparked in India after the family of a woman gang raped in in the Indian district of Hathras revealed that the police cremated the body of the 19-year-old without their consent. Abhishek Mathur, an Indian journalist who had seen the cremation from a distance, told the BBC that the police kept the family and media away from the funeral pyre. The victim’s brother was quoted by the BBC that police officials were pressurising the family to cremate the woman immediately. He added that the police took her body after the family refused to bow into the pressure. "We begged them to let us bring her body inside the house one last time, but they didn't listen to us," the woman's brother was quoted as saying by the Indian Express . Police did not offer an explanation but multiple relatives protested against the 3 am cremation, saying they wanted the body to lie at the family home for a time so absent loved ones could return to pay their respe...