Students look on after getting their face painted to condemn the gang-rape of a 19-year-old woman victim by four men in Bool Garhi village of Uttar Pradesh state, in Mumbai on October 2, 2020. - AFP
NEW DELHI (AFP): A court in India has ordered police to protect the family of a woman allegedly gang-raped and killed by four high-caste men, as her brother said they feared reprisals over the accusations.
The 19-year-old woman was attacked in mid-September and died this week, sparking outrage and shining the spotlight again on sexual violence in India, particularly attacks against women of a lower caste.
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