GENEVA: Indian law enforcement and justice authorities have shirked their responsibility to fight sex attacks, a United Nations child rights watchdog said on Thursday (Friday in Manila), amid uproar over the horrific gang-rape and lynching of two girls.

“There has been a dereliction of duty in relation to rape cases,” said Benyam Mezmur, deputy chairman of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

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