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Police impose emergency law in Indian village as gang-rape victim’s cremation sparks clashes

Police impose emergency law in Indian village as gang-rape victim’s cremation sparks clashes

SAURABH SHARMA and ALASDAIR PAL INDIAN police have imposed emergency laws in a village where a woman from the lowest rung of the country's caste system was allegedly raped and killed, barring gatherings of more than five people after clashes erupted following her cremation. The 19-year-old victim died from her injuries on Tuesday, having been attacked and gang-raped on September 14 in a field near her home in Hathras district, 100 km (62 miles) from Delhi, authorities said. Police have arrested four men in connection with the crime. Clashes between protesters and police erupted in the district in the northern…
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