The medico-legal report of the Hathras gangrape complainant, prepared by the hospital in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, where she was first admit...
The medico-legal report of the Hathras gangrape complainant, prepared by the hospital in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, where she was first admitted, has shown that doctors had recorded “complete penetration of the vagina” and the use of force in their preliminary exam, The Wire reported on Sunday. Four upper caste Thakur men gangraped and tortured the 20-year-old on September 14, and she died in New Delhi on September 29.
The medical report from Aligarh’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Hospital contradicts the Uttar Pradesh police’s claim that the woman was not raped, which was based on swab samples taken several days after the crime occurred.
The 54-page report also showed that the woman was strangled with her dupatta or scarf. The 20-year-old was found to have quadriparesis – a condition that causes weakness in the arms and legs. The report also showed paraplegia in her body, or “sensory loss” in her lower limbs.
The hospital’s report claimed that the woman told doctors about the rape on September 22, eight days after she was admitted there. The case was referred to the Forensic Science Laboratory in Agra the same day.
This happened because the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s protocol mandates that examining doctors “should neither refute nor confirm” whether a woman has...
