Former Union minister Raja Manvendra Singh, who is the national president of Akhil Bharatiya Kshatriya Mahasabha, has asked AP Singh to fight for the accused in the Hathras case.
As per the India Today report, Singh in a press release has informed that the body has collected a lot of money for his fees. The release also stressed that SC-ST community is being "misused" to malign the upper caste society through this case. This case has particularly hurt the Rajput community.
"In this case, it has been decided that AP Singh will plead the case for the accused party to bring out the truth," the letter further read.
Advocating for two death row convicts, the lawyer fought the case of all the rapists in one of the most heinous rape cases in the country that shook the nation.
In the Hathras gangrape case, the accused have acquired support from upper caste groups who are demanding an "unbiased" probe. In fact, workers associated with the Savarn Samaj (Upper caste society) had protested in Hathras demanding justice for the men accused of abusing the 19-year-old Dalit girl.
The death of the dalit girl was followed by a panchayat, which was held in favour of the four accused who are in police custody.
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There have been voices demanding an unbiased probe into the matter by the special investigation team (SIT) formed by the Uttar Pradesh government.
Meanwhile, a forensic report on the young Dalit woman, who died days after being assaulted by a group of men, has highlighted there were "no signs suggestive of intercourse", which in turn backed the state police views that the woman was not raped.
Even as the report of the FSL (Forensic Science Laboratory) in Agra suggested the samples did not contain sperm but experts raises questions pointing out that it is based on samples collected 11 days after the crime.