A Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe special court on Thursday, March 2, exonerated three of the four accused in the case of the 2020 gang-rape and torture of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh. None of the accused was found guilty of gang rape.

On September 14, 2020, a Dalit woman, 19, was raped by four "upper-caste" men in Hathras. Fifteen days later she died at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital on September 29 where she was undergoing treatment.