‘We are suffocating here’: A year on, Hathras victim’s family lives in fear, shunned by village

The family has kept the ashes of the 19-year-old in a small urn in a corner of a room. Her sewing machine and clothes lie on a shelf. The Dalit family in Hathras has decided they will not perform her last rites until they get justice from the court. A year ago, on September 14, 2020, the 19-year-old was allegedly…