In a surprising development in the Hathras case, it is now revealed that the victim's brother and the main accused Sandeep were friends and they also used to talk to each other over the phone.
Zee News has the call data records indicating that the accused Sandeep used to talk to the victim's family on a specific number. It was found that the number was registered in the name of the victim's brother. Call data records show that from October 2019 to March 2020, there was a five-hour conversation between the two numbers. However, the victim's brother refused to accept that he used to talk to the main accused Sandeep over the phone.
If the brothers did not talk, then who would have spoken to the accused. In the Zee News team's further investigation, some residents of Boolgadhi village hinted at a possible love affair between the accused and the victim. Family members of the other accused spoke about their families' innocence and denied the alleged gang rape of the victim.
One of the accused, Ramu's mother, said that she was working in a dairy plant when the incident took place. The dairy plant owner testified in front of the camera, stating that Ramu was at the plant from 8 am to 12 am.
The big question is still the big question of whether the victim was allegedly raped? Forensic reports from Aligarh Muslim University's Medical College and Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital have not proved it. Instead, the report states that the victim was physically assaulted.
The villagers told Zee News that the accused Ravi was also not in the village on the day of the incident. Omkar Singh, a resident of village Bulgadhi, claimed to be an eyewitness to the incident. Onkar Singh said, "On the 14th, I was going from the village towards the farm, and I saw. Sandeep, along with his father, was giving water to the cow. I could hear the girl's brother Sandeep and her voice were coming from the farm. Mother was standing there. The girl was lying in the field. The girl's brother was only asking her to name Sandeep."
The fourth accused mother, Lovkush, claimed that she had sent her son to provide water to the injured victim in the field. He said that later the victim's family also made Lavakush an accused in the case.