Premlata Yadav

A local lawyers' association has decided against defending any of the accused in the gang-rape of a teenager in Haryana last week. "We express our grief on the incident, and have decided that none of our members will represent them," said Ravinder Yadav, its president.

Mulayam Singh Yadav now presides over what could well stake claim to being the largest political family in a single party; five members joined politics this month to take the grand total to 18.

A local lawyers' association has decided against defending any of the accused in the gang-rape of a teenager in Haryana last week. "We express our grief on the incident, and have decided that none of our members will represent them," said Ravinder Yadav, its president.

Mulayam Singh Yadav now presides over what could well stake claim to being the largest political family in a single party; five members joined politics this month to take the grand total to 18.