The Uttar Pradesh government has told the Supreme Court that the Hathras gang rape-murder victim was cremated in the night due to intelligence inputs that lakhs of people from the communities of both the woman and the accused along with political workers would assemble at her village, which could lead to a major law and order problem.

The state government also urged the apex court to direct for a CBI probe into case, claiming that "vested interests" were attempting to ascribe motives to vitiate a fair probe.