Delhi rape accused lived on margins of India's boom

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BADAUN, India/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - In a village in India's Uttar Pradesh state, a woman sits hunched on the ground in a green shawl, visibly weak and shivering in the January cold. She says she has not eaten for days, and neither have her five young children. She has never heard of Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, having never ventured further from her village than a nearby market town, and ekes out a living working in potato fields on other people's land. Her eldest son left home when he was 11. He never returned, and the woman thought he was dead. ...

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