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Joint Magistrate Prem Prakash Meena refuted allegations that the administration had confined the victim's family and confiscated their phones.

On Thursday, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi along with several party leaders were detained by the police and sent back to Delhi, after they tried to reach Hathras to meet the family of the Dalit woman.

It will be a bigger offence if Hathras and Balrampur cases end up as just another set of cold statistics

The state has 49,112 active COVID-19 cases, Prasad said, noting that the figure has come below the 50,000-mark after a long time.

A total of 81,484 new confirmed cases have been reported in the last 24 hours in the country.

Narayanasamy had condemned the police action against Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadras as a clear "exposure of the Jungle Raj and Hitler Raj in UP."

The family has expressed suspicion that she was killed after sexual assault. However, rape can only be confirmed after the post-mortem report.