Post-mortem of Hathras gangrape victim confirms fracture in spine, strangulation

The post-mortem report of the 19-year-old Dalit girl from Hathras who was allegedly gangraped by four upper-caste men and brutally assaulted has confirmed that she suffered a fracture in her spine and was also strangulated. The report has been prepared by Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital where she died early Tuesday morning, a day after she was referred from a hospital in Aligarh.

As per the post-mortem report, the Hathras gangrape victim suffered fracture of "C6 cervical vertebra". Besides this, the report says there was "extravasations of blood along the fracture line" and the underlying spinal cord was "contused with ascending oedema".

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