On Wednesday, CM Arvind Kejriwal said the Delhi Govt will order a magisterial inquiry into the death of a 9-year-old Dalit girl following an alleged sexual assault.
The CM also announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakh for the family of the girl.
“Our girl cannot come back. The injustice done to the family is unfortunate & cannot be compensated, but the government will give Rs 10 lakh to them & order a magisterial inquiry into the matter,” he told reporters after meeting the family.
He said that “There is a need to strengthen law & order in Delhi. I appeal to the central government to take firm steps in this direction".
In a tweet, CM Kejriwal said that the Govt will appoint top lawyers to ensure the guilty is punished.
The parents of the girl accompanied by hundreds of locals were staging a protest near the site of the incident in the Old Nangal area in southwest Delhi, demanding capital punishment for the accused.
The girl lived with her parents in a rented house in front of a crematorium. On Sunday at around 5.30 PM, she went to get cold water from a cooler at the crematorium after informing her mother, her parents said.
Around 6 PM, the crematorium's priest, Radhey Shyam, & two-three other people, known to the girl's mother, called her there & showed her daughter's body claiming that she got electrocuted while getting water from the cooler.
There were burn marks between her left wrist & elbow, & her lips were also blue, according to police.
It was alleged the priest & the others dissuaded her mother from making a PCR call, saying police will make a case out of it & during the post-mortem, doctors will steal the girl's organs, so it was better to cremate her.
Police had on Monday said that based on the statement of the victim's mother, rape charges have been added in the FIR. Four people, including the priest, have been arrested.
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