Low-caste teenager's insistence on justice for gang-rape ordeal leads to blackballing by neighbours and murder of her mother (Daily Mail)
“The victim was 16 when she was snatched from the street as she walked to school and raped by two men in a moving car.
“She reported the attack to the police but three weeks later, on a date etched on to the wall of her home, her mother disappeared.
“Two days later she was found dead in a canal. Doctors said she too was raped before she was murdered.
“Now the teenager’s fight to see the men accused of her rape sent to jail has pitted her and her family against a hostile neighbourhood.
“They are Dalits, India's lowest caste who are derided as 'untouchables'; the suspects, who police say also raped and killed her mother, are upper caste. [...]
“The victim’s widowed father, a day labourer, said neighbours had repeatedly told them to drop the charges.”
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