New Delhi (CNN) -- A 20-year-old woman in India has alleged that she was gang-raped by a group of men this week after the head of a village ordered them to do so, police in West Bengal said on Thursday.
The incident allegedly took place Monday in a tribal village in a very remote part of West Bengal, in India's northeast, police spokesman Prasanta Chowdhury said.Singh called Hasina to convey his "good wishes to her and the people of Bangladesh", bdnews24.com reported, quoting Hasina's press secretary, Abul Kalam Azad.
Singh's endorsement comes amid growing pressure to cancel the controversial election.
But Hasina told reporters she would continue to "serve my people and sustain the democratic process", the Ittefaq reported. She added that she would be willing to hold a dialogue with Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Khaleda Zia provided she wouldn't demand new elections under a neutral caretaker administration.
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