evidence: Also read: COVER STORY | Rape and murder of a young Dalit woman in Hathras and the cremation of law [...] What is needed is an agenda of social reconstruction, a time when development is prioritised over everything else. Says Inamur Rehman, a retired academic turned social worker from Bareilly: "We are living in times when a crime is judged on the basis of who has done it. If it is a Dalit or a Muslim girl who is violated, the media and many departments of the administration try to deflect attention from the crime. When a Rajput hero commits suicide in Mumbai, the U.P. channels talk of it non-stop, but when three Dalit sisters are attacked with acid in Gonda district, it is not news for them. In Hathras, they are trying to prove it was a case of honour killing. In other places, aspersions are cast on the integrity of the girl. Tell me, is it not a rape even if a sex worker is assaulted? Today, we seem to have given certain elements in the State a free run. There are a different set of rules for them."