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After a 19 years old gang rape victim died two week after the incident in Hathras, the Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday announced that her family will be given ₹25 lakh as ex-gratia and a house, along with a government job to one family member.
The government also announced that a fastrack court would hear the matter. The woman's funeral was conducted with the consent of the family. The post-mortem was conducted and details of the examination is expected to be out soon.
Moreover, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today spoke to the father of the and assured him of stringent action against all the accused, a senior official said.
The Dalit woman, who died in a Delhi hospital a fortnight after she was gang-raped, was cremated in the early hours of Wednesday.
On September 14, the young woman had gone to the fields with her mother and went missing soon after. She was found later, beaten and tortured, her tongue cut as she bit it when the accused attempted to strangle her.
She was first admitted to Aligarh Muslim University's Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital and then shifted to Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi on Monday.
