The family of a woman who was gang raped and murdered in Noida, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, claim the police tried to cover up the attack because one of the alleged culprits was wealthy.
The semi-naked and bruised body of the 22-year-old woman called Sanyogita was found on Saturday morning by the roadside.
It comes weeks after a gang rape in Delhi sparked outrage across the world.
Five police officers have been suspended for allegedly failing to investigate the crime and three men have been arrested.
But the victim's family claim they will not see justice because they are Dalits - the Indian caste traditionally regarded as 'untouchable'.
Sanyogita's mother, Sunita, said: "We are lower caste and that is why our voice is never heard. The case against the accused is being watered down because they are rich."
Her father Dharamsingh is of the same opinion.
"The police tried to bury the case in the beginning," he said.
"Even before we arrived they had taken the body and they wanted her cremated."
Their story contrasts sharply with the outcry over the Delhi bus gang rape on December 16.
The attack happened in the capital city to a girl who was a medical student . She could have been the daughter of any of the city's growing cosmopolitan middle class.
Sanyogita, on the other hand, came from a poor family with, it seems, no voice.
In the village she grew up in it is striking that there are no satellite TV trucks or protesters demanding justice.
The truth is that most crimes against women in India happen in the country's small towns and villages and largely go unnoticed and unchallenged.
Rape and molestation is rising across the country and no-one in authority appears to have an answer as to what to do about it.
In Delhi, the number of women signing up for self-defence classes has doubled in recent weeks.
At one session at a school in the south of the city we meet Vinita, who coincidentally, is writing a Phd on Indian history.
She believes the rise in violence against women will not be combatted until society changes.
She said: "It is not equal with us and because Indian culture places so much emphasis on honour of women, honourable things like staying at home... humiliating them in a sexual way (and) violating their bodies seems to be the best way of telling a woman 'you are not honourable enough anymore, you mind your place'."
The Delhi gang rape has presented India with some uncomfortable truths.
The country likes to cast itself as the economic and cultural powerhouse of South Asia, but the attack has revealed the nation's many fault lines.
India is a society of unequals: rich and poor, men and women.
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