50-year-old gang-raped, murdered in Badaun, family claims police inaction

A 50-year-old anganwadi worker was gang-raped and murdered allegedly by a priest and his two accomplices in Budaun district of Uttar Pradesh, triggering an opposition's outcry and a comparison with Delhi's 2012 Nirbhaya case.

Family members of the victim claimed police inaction. The FIR was registered two days later after the autopsy confirmed rape and the two accomplices of the priest were nabbed.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered "strongest possible action" in the case even as opposition parties attacked his government, terming the incident "horrific" and "shameful".