India parents accepted cash to ‘sabotage daughter’s rape trial’

    Police in India are hunting for a man accused of accepting money to sabotage his daughter’s rape trial.

    It is alleged the teenager was kidnapped and raped last year in Delhi, and that her parents accepted money from the assailants in order to pressure her to change a police statement.

    The girl went to a police station with 500,000 rupees (about $7,600; £5,300) that she said her parents accepted from the accused.

    Police say the mother has been arrested but the father is on the run.

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