A federal agency will investigate the alleged gang rape and death of a young Dalit woman that has sparked nationwide outrage and days of protests.
India's federal investigators will take over the probe into the alleged gang rape and murder of a young Dalit woman that has sparked nationwide outrage and days of protests.
The chief minister of the state - India's most populous with 200 million people - announced the decision to transfer the probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation late on Saturday. The involvement of leaders of the opposition Congress party, Priyanka and Rahul Gandhi, in several demonstrations has sparked accusations from the BJP that they were politicising the issue.
An average of nearly 90 rapes were reported in India every day last year, according to data by the National Crime Records Bureau, but large numbers are thought to go unreported.
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