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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

On September 14, a 19-year-old Dalit girl from Boolgadhi village went to a farm, with her mother and a male family member, to collect fodder. The village falls under Chandpa police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district. While at work, she was attacked and gang-raped, allegedly by four upper caste men from her village. The girl’s mother found her with a deep neck injury, gasping for breath with her tongue cut off.

Doctors at Aligarh’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Hospital said at the time of admission the

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