Allahabad High Court orders relocation of Hathras victim’s family to Ghaziabad or Noida within three months

Police personnel cremating the body of a 19-year-old woman who was brutally gang-raped, in the wee hours in Hathras in September 2020. | Photo Credit: - The Allahabad High Court on Monday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to rehabilitate and relocate the family of the Hathras gang rape and murder victim to Ghaziabad or Noida within three months, after finding “unnecessary resistance” on the State’s part in complying with its earlier directions. A Bench of Justices Rajan Roy and Jaspreet Singh observed that the State’s February 22, 2025 decision offering to rehabilitate the family in Kasganj, Etah or Aligarh did not consider its request for relocation to Ghaziabad or Noida and was, therefore, “no decision in the eyes of law”. Such orders, the Bench said, lent credence to the family’s as