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A rape allegation from two minors in Rajasthan has given the BJP ammunition against the Congress amid the huge political battle over the death of a 20-year-old in Hathras after gang rape and torture. A second case, where another minor was involved, has helped the state's opposition party pile on the pressure. However, Congress leader Sachin Pilot denied the state government is not doing enough. "Sexual assault is not acceptable in any civilized society. In Rajasthan, we're not trying to hide evidence or burn bodies. But there was certain arrogance in that (UP) government," Sachin Pilot told NDTV.

The demolition of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, was not planned and involved "anti-social elements", a court in Uttar Pradesh said on Wednesday, acquitting all 32 accused including BJP leaders LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti of conspiracy charges in a landmark verdict. On Left, Right and Centre, we ask: will this verdict mark the end of temple politics?

As the country was mourning the death of a daughter, UP government's hurriedly conducted cremation sparked outrage. A cremation that was done against the family's will. The family pleaded with the administration to let them take the body home. A desperate mother sat on the road, in front of the ambulance crying, begging the cops to allow her to take the body home. But the police forced its way through the cremation. India's daughter was denied a final visit home. On Left, Right and Centre, we ask: who and what is the UP government trying to protect? Is this the price one pays for being a backward caste?

On Left, Right and Centre, we speak to the brother of the Hathras gang-rape victim on the family's struggle for justice, and how India's daughter was denied a final visit home. "We don't even know if the body was really of our sister, whether it was a dead body. They did not allow us to go near the ambulance also," he said.

Bhim Army Chief Chandrashekhar Azad, speaking exclusively to NDTV on the Hathras rape incident, said no justice has been served in this case since everyone is only focussed on Kangana Ranaut's house and Bollywood.

Protests erupted after a 20-year-old woman from west Uttar Pradesh's Hathras died at a Delhi hospital, 2 weeks after she was gang-raped near her village, 200 km away from the national capital. A spate of heinous and brutal crimes against women have been reported from across Uttar Pradesh in the last 45 days. In August, the state's Kheri district, near the Indo-Nepal border, reported three cases of rape and murder, two of them involving minors. Tonight on Left Right and Centre we ask, from Fast Track Courts to Nirbhaya Fund, is anything working?

Asha Devi, Nirbhaya's mother, speaking exclusively to NDTV's Sanket Upadhyay on the Hathras Rape incident, said the incident reminds her of 2012 when the Nirbhaya case happened.

Union Minister Ramdas Athawale met the Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari today to discuss the charges of rape levelled against director Anurag Kashyap by an actor. Tonight on Left Right and Centre, NDTV's Sanket Upadhyay speaks exclusively to Ramdas Athawale.

Prashant Kumar, Additional Director General of Police (Law & Order) of Uttar Pradesh, speaking exclusively to Sanket Upadhay on the Hathras rape case, said that the victim first disclosed the subject of sexual assault on September 22 whereas the initial complaint was registered on September 14.

Top production house executives are in the net of the drug probe agency NCB. Tonight, on Left Right and Centre, we debate, is the drugs probe in the Sushant Rajput Case heading somewhere or directionless?