Lucknow, Oct 22, Oct. 22 -- A fact finding report released by a team of various civil society organisations that visited Hathras, has found several 'institutional lapses' that may have compromised the investigation into the alleged gang-rape and murder of the 19-year-old Dalit girl.

A team from the National Alliance of People's Movements, an umbrella body of civil society organisations, visited the Boolgarhi village where the incident took place on October 9, a day before the CBI took over the investigations.

"Our fact-finding team found that the investigation was not properly done. The first 24 hours after registering an FIR are very important. Despite that, no one investigated the sexual assault angle. Since the medical examination wa...