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In case you missed it: News and newsmakers from India over the past week

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A special court has awarded life imprisonment to four men for raping a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Rajasthan’s Alwar district. The fifth man has been sentenced to five years in jail. The sixth, a minor at the time of the crime, is being tried separat­ely. The crime is from 2019­—the woman was raped in front of her husband. The juvenile filmed the rape on his phone.

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The BJP has declared its list for the assembly bypolls in Madhya Pradesh, fielding all loyalists of former Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia­—six Congress ministers and 19 MLAs—who quit with him to join the party in March. As many as 28 assembly seats will have bypolls on November 3.

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The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) has accused RJD of “political cheating” and announced that it will independ­ently contest seven seats in the Bihar elections. But it said the decision won’t affect the ruling coalition of JMM-Congress-RJD in Jharkhand. The JMM is miffed over seat-sharing.

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