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Podcast: Reporters Without Orders
Episode: Reporters Without Orders Ep 135: Hathras rape case, and how the media covered it
Description: In this episode, host Snigdha Sharma is joined by Newslaundry’s Nidhi Suresh and Akanksha Kumar. This time, the trio skip the bizarre news section to discuss the most horrific story of the week: the Hathras case. A 19-year-old Dalit woman succumbed to injuries at a hospital in New Delhi after she was gangraped by four Thakur men in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district. Nidhi brings up that the victim’s body was cremated by the Uttar Pradesh police without a single family member being present. “Her family was deprived of even one intimate moment wit...