India’s federal agency to probe Dalit woman’s gang rape and death

India’s federal investigators will take over the probe into the alleged gang rape and death of a young Dalit woman that has sparked nationwide outrage and days of protests. A special team of the Uttar Pradesh state police that has been investigating the incident will soon be handing over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), a spokesman for the police said on Sunday. The 19-year-old – who belongs to a marginalised group formerly known as “untouchables” – was assaulted in a field outside her village in the northern Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district on September 14. She was severely injured and died two weeks later at a hospital in the Indian capital, New Delhi. style="width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0; left: 0;">