CBI Files Case In Hathras Probe, Day After Taking Over From UP Police

The CBI has registered a case against an accused in connection with the alleged gang rape and murder of a 20-year-old Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras last month. The FIR, filed at police station in UP's Ghaziabad lists rape, attempt to murder and gang rape as the offences, according to news agency ANI. Registered by request of the UP government and on "further notification from the Government of India", the case complainant - one of the young woman's brothers - has alleged that on September 14 the accused tried to strangle his sister in a millet field.