Kapil Sibal, appearing for the journalists' body, said that the mother of Kappan was unconscious and was wanting to see her son.

The 19-year-old victim in the Hathras case died at a Delhi hospital after she was allegedly raped by four men from her village on September 14 last year.

Hathras District Magistrate Praveen Kumar Laxkar will now be the new district magistrate of Mirzapur.

A 19-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly gang-raped by four men in Hathras on September 14

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 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.

Police seize 14 pistols, three unfinished pistols besides ammunition in huge quantities

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.

There are 11 anti-Romeo squads with five police personnel in each team.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra highlighted various incidents of crimes against women in Uttar Pradesh from October 9 to October 15.

Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said after the alleged rape and death of a Dalit woman in Hathras, there have been many more incidents of crimes against women.

AAP leader Sanjay Singh said that the UP government was trying to weaken the case by 'destroying' evidence and demanded monitoring of CBI inquiry

The case was referred to the CBI by the Uttar Pradesh government after alleged apathy of the administration snowballed into a political storm with Congress, Aam Admi Party, Trinamool Congress and other opposition leaders staged massive protests.

Left parties in a joint statement accused the UP authorities of playing tricks over the Hathras case.

Central Bureau of Investigation took over the probe into a 19-year-old Dalit girl’s alleged gang-rape on September 14.

The police and district administration are working on an elaborate plan in this regard as to how many family members will go and when they will depart from Hathras.

The letter written from the Aligarh district jail by the four accused in the Hathras rape case has gone viral on social media.

Similar rallies were taken out in different districts of West Bengal by women activists of the Trinamool Congress.