Lucknow, Oct 12 (TIWN) : Hathras district magistrate Parveen Kumar Laxar has owned full responsibility for the decision related to holding the cremation of the 19-year-old victim in the night.

Laxar pleaded that cremation had been done in the dead of the night because they had received intelligence inputs that some vested interests could try to provoke caste violence.  He also said that there was a possibility the body decomposing if the cremation was delayed further.