Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday met the family of the nine-year-old Dalit girl allegedly raped, murdered and forcibly cremated by her attackers in Delhi’s Cantonment area on Sunday.

In a tweet, the Congress leader said: “Her parents’ tears are saying only one thing - their daughter, the daughter of this country, deserves justice. And I am with them on this path of justice." Gandhi had raised the issue on Tuesday too, calling her “the nation’s daughter". “I spoke with the family… they want justice and nothing else. They’re saying justice is not being given to them and that they should be helped”. We Rahul Gandhi said.

The crime has drawn comparisons to the gangrape of a Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras in September last year. The woman’s body was also cremated in a hurry - allegedly by the police who acted without her parent’s consent and disposed off the body at 2 am in the morning. On Tuesday, people from different walks of life joined the protest to press for the family's demand for justice. The parents of the girl accompanied by hundreds of locals staged a protest on Tuesday near the site of the incident, demanding capital punishment for the accused.

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