New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- Awadhesh Prasad, the Samajwadi Party MP from Faizabad, burst into tears on Sunday during a press conference over the rape and murder of a Dalit woman and declared that he would resign from his position if the perpetrators of heinous crime were not caught and punished.

Prasad's teary outburst was in response to the murder of a 22-year-old Dalit woman whose body was found in Ayodhya, which is a part of the Faizabad constituency.

According to reports, the naked body of the woman was recovered from a canal near her village. As per her family members, she was violated before the murder and her eyes were also gouged out.

The Samajwadi Party MP, speaking to the press, started crying over the incident, lamenting that he co...