Muslims offer Friday prayers outside a mosque, amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Srinagar on October 2, 2020. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





An Indian health worker takes a nasal swab sample of a student to test for coronavirus after classes started at a college in Jhargaon village, outskirts of Gauhati, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2020. India's Health Ministry on Wednesday raised its confirmed total of coronavirus cases to more than 6.2 million. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Former lawmaker from India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Ram Vilas Vedanti, an accused in the 1992 attack and demolition of a 16th century mosque, celebrates outside a court in Lucknow, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2020. An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted all 32 accused, including senior leaders of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, in the case. The demolition sparked Hindu-Muslim violence that left some 2,000 people dead. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Congress supporters react as they are being detained by police during a demonstration outside the Uttar Pradesh Bhawan (state house) in New Delhi on September 30, 2020, a day after a 19-year-old woman who was allegedly gang-raped died from her injuries near Bool Garhi village in the UP state. Indian police were accused on September 30 of cremating the body of a 19-year-old woman against her family's will after she was allegedly gang-raped by four men in the country's latest horrific sexual assault. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP Photo)





Supporters of India's main opposition Congress party react as they are detained by police during a protest against new farm laws, in Kolkata, India, September 28, 2020. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Students wearing protective face masks attend their class under the trees as they maintain social distancing outside their school, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Gund on the outskirts of Srinagar on September 30, 2020. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A demonstrator is detained by police during a protest after the death of a rape victim, on Rajpath near India Gate, in New Delhi, India, September 30, 2020. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





A supporter of India's main opposition Congress party is detained by police during a protest after the death of a rape victim, in front of Uttar Pradesh state bhawan (building) in New Delhi, India, September 30, 2020. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





An Indian activist argues with a police officer before being detained by police during a protest in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2020. The gang rape and killing of the woman from the lowest rung of India's caste system has sparked outrage across the country with several politicians and activists demanding justice and protesters rallying on the streets. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Chandrashekhar Azad, leader of the Bhim Army, a political party of Dalits who represent the Hinduism's lowest caste, speaks during a protest against the gang rape and killing of a woman in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh, in New Delhi, India, Friday, October 2, 2020. Hundreds of protesters on Friday demanded the dismissal of a Hindu nationalist government in a northern Indian state where a 19-year-old woman from India’s lowest caste was allegedly gang raped and brutally attacked last month and later died in a hospital. Dalits — formerly known as “untouchables” — are victims of thousands of attacks each year. According to human rights organizations, Dalit women are particularly vulnerable to caste-based discrimination and sexual violence. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





An Indian woman performs rituals near the body of her husband who died of COVID-19 in Gauhati, India, Monday, September 28, 2020. India’s confirmed coronavirus tally has reached 6 million cases, keeping the country second to the United States in number of reported cases since the pandemic began. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Relatives mourn the death of a man due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a crematorium in New Delhi, India on September 28, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





People wait to give their nasal swab samples to test for COVID-19 in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, September 29, 2020. India confirmed coronavirus tally has reached 6 million cases, keeping the country second to the United States in number of reported cases since the pandemic began. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Commuters ignoring physical distancing norms push each other as they try to board on a long distance bus in Kolkata, India, Thursday, October 1, 2020. India is expected to become the coronavirus pandemic's worst-hit country within weeks, surpassing the United States. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





Indian police officials wearing face shields and masks as a precaution against the coronavirus stand guard during a protest against a pair of controversial agriculture bills in Bengaluru, India, Monday, September 28, 2020. India's confirmed coronavirus tally has reached 6 million cases, keeping the country second to the United States in number of reported cases since the pandemic began. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





Student activists shout slogans while burning an effigy of Uttar Pradesh state Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during a protest against the gang rape and killing of a teenager, in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, October 1, 2020. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





India's opposition Congress party supporters protesting against gang rape and killing of a woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district hold onto each other as Indian policemen try to detain them in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2020. The gang rape and killing of the woman from the lowest rung of India's caste system has sparked outrage across the country with several politicians and activists demanding justice and protesters rallying on the streets. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





A woman reacts as police detain activists protesting against gang rape and killing of a woman in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh during a protest in New Delhi, India, Thursday, October 1, 2020. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





Commuters wearing masks wait at a traffic intersection in Kochi, Kerala state, India, Monday, September 28, 2020. India's confirmed coronavirus tally has crossed 6 million cases, only second behind the United States, as the south Asian country continues to battle the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the world. (Photo by R.S. Iyer/AP Photo)





Indian activists shout slogans as they protest against an alleged gang rape of a 19 years old Dalit girl in Uttar Pradesh state, outside Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi, India, 29 September 2020. A 19 years old Dalit girl was allegedly gang raped and tortured in Hathras in Uttar Pradesh state two weeks ago. She succumbed to injuries in Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi on 29 September. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA/EFE)