Hathras victim's family wants me to be their legal counsel: Nirbhaya's lawyer

Hathras victim's family wants me to be their legal counsel: Nirbhaya's lawyer

Kushwaha tried to meet the victim's family on Thursday, but was prevented from meeting them by the Uttar Pradesh police.

Seema Kushwaha, lawyer of the 2012 Delhi gang-rape victim Nirbhaya, will now fight the case of the 19-year-old Hathras victim. According to sources, Kushwaha tried to meet the victim's family on Thursday, but was prevented from meeting them by the Uttar Pradesh police.

"I will not leave Hathras without meeting the family. They have requested me to stand as their legal counsel but the administration is not allowing me to meet them," she told mediapersons.

Hathras victim's family wants me to be their legal counsel: Nirbhaya's lawyer
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She said that she was in touch with the victim's brother. Kushwaha was the family lawyer of the 23-year-old paramedical student who was gang-raped on a moving bus on the night of December 16, 2012, by six people, including a juvenile in Delhi.

The woman died at a Singapore hospital later.

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