राष्ट्रीय (31/07/2014) 
NHRC notices to DM and SP, Mathura in a case of sexual assault

  The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance a media report that a teenage Dalit girl was allegedly gang raped by six youths in Pingri village of Mathura District, Uttar Pradesh on the 19th July, 2014.  Reportedly, she had gone to a temple to attend an overnight religious event.  When she went to relieve herself at a nearby field, she was abducted and sexually assaulted.

          The Commission has observed that the contents of the press report, if true, raise a serious issue of violation of human rights of the victim and issued notices to the District Magistrate and Superintendent of Police, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh calling for a report in the matter within two weeks.

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