{
 "no": 18,
 "id": "case-18",
 "sk": 20200929,
 "year": 2020,
 "date": "29 Sep 2020",
 "cat": "Rights and dissent",
 "sev": "red",
 "title": "Hathras. A victim, and a cremation at 2am",
 "stamp": "No senior official answered",
 "human": {
  "v": "A young Dalit woman dead after an alleged gang rape; her body burned without the family's consent",
  "est": false
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "A community's trust in the state, set alight in the dark",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "A 19-year-old Dalit woman died after an alleged gang rape in Hathras, UP. Police cremated her body in the dead of night, without her family present or willing, and officials at first disputed that a rape had occurred.",
 "dodge": "A forced night cremation and an official denial are the marks of a cover-up, not a reckoning. Journalists heading to report the case were arrested. No senior figure in the state government answered for any of it.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Yogi Adityanath",
   "r": "UP Chief Minister (BJP)"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The state said the cremation respected the family's wishes and law-and-order needs, and ordered a probe.",
 "alt": "Dignity and consent for the family, an independent investigation, and consequences for officials who burned a body in secret.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "The Hindu, Hathras cremation and SIT investigation",
   "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/up-police-forcibly-cremating-hathras-rape-victim-at-night-allege-kin/article61700743.ece",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20250809202736/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/up-police-forcibly-cremating-hathras-rape-victim-at-night-allege-kin/article61700743.ece"
  },
  {
   "label": "The Hindu, Supreme Court bail for Siddique Kappan",
   "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/supreme-court-grants-bail-to-kerala-journalist-siddique-kappan/article65869975.ece",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260312010935/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/supreme-court-grants-bail-to-kerala-journalist-siddique-kappan/article65869975.ece"
  }
 ],
 "estimates": {
  "deaths": 1
 },
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-18/"
}