Bollywood Angered Over Hathras Gang-rape, Demand Justice For Victim

Mumbai: Bollywood actors Akshay Kumar, Farhan Akhtar, Richa Chadha among others have called for “serious punishment” after a 19-year-old Dalit woman from Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras died on Tuesday, days after being raped by four men. The woman was gang-raped on September 14 following which she was admitted to the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital in Aligarh. She was referred to Delhi’s Safdarjung hospital on Monday after her condition showed no signs of improvement.

Taking to Twitter, Kumar wrote that the incident had left him “angry and frustrated” and also called for hanging of the rapists. “Such brutality in #Hathras gangrape. When will this stop? Our laws and their enforcement must be so strict that the mere thought of punishment makes rapists shudder with fear! “Hang the culprits. Raise your voice to safeguard daughters and sisters. It’s the least we can do,” he tweeted. Echoing a similar sentiment, Riteish Deshmukh said the culprits of the brutal and “horrific” crime should be “hanged in public”. The accused had tried to strangulate the woman to death as she resisted their attempt and in the process, she had ended up biting her tongue, suffering a severe cut on it.