The police have booked a priest and two disciples under IPC sections 376-d (gang-rape) and 302 (murder)
Hathras District Magistrate Praveen Kumar Laxkar will now be the new district magistrate of Mirzapur.
In its report, the agency mentioned lapses on at least four counts, starting with the police not writing down the woman's oral statement.
The findings submitted by the CBI left top Uttar Pradesh Police officials red-faced as they had claimed that no evidence of rape was found in forensic tests.
The victim and Sandeep lived nearby and 'he developed acquaintance with the victim two/three years back which gradually turned into love affair'
The four accused in the alleged gang rape of a 19-year-old Dalit girl in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras in September have been charged for gang-rape and murder by a local court, their lawyer said.
'Nothing has changed,' he says, eight years after a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern was raped and brutally assaulted in a moving bus in south Delhi
A 19-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly gang-raped by four men in Hathras on September 14
People's Union for Civil Liberties demand security for the victim's family and social rehabilitation
Siddique Kappan was arrested on October 5 by the UP police while he was on his way to Hathras and hasn't been allowed to meet his lawyers or family since then.
Court seeks immediate action on a month-old plea that falsely reveals the identity of Hathras rape victim.
The bench considered the request of Uttar Pradesh government and asked the Allahabad High Court to delete the victim’s name from one of its orders on a PIL pending there.
The Mahila Congress chief said while Uttar Pradesh beat up media people, Punjab has not tried to hush up this case.
The incident was reported from a village by the girl's father on Thursday after which an FIR was lodged at the local Hathras Junction police station, they said.
The 19-year-old woman, who was assaulted and allegedly raped by four men, was under treatment at the hospital before being referred to Delhi. She died at a Delhi hospital later.
Dr Azeem Malik, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (JNMC) at Aligarh Muslim University had contradicted police’s claim that the Hathras victim was not raped.
Joint Director Sampat Meena, who had supervised the probe in the Unnao rape case earlier, visited the CBI's Hathras camp office.
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi attacked the BJP government over the recently passed farm laws, economic slowdown, atrocities against Dalits and its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
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The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.