UP Dalit Girls Rape-Murder: Girls were hanged with their own dupattas and there are no visible injuries
Lakhimpur: Two Dalit sisters in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur were found hanging on a tree near a sugarcane field. Six young men have been arrested for their rape and murder. Police officials have said that the two girls were strangled by four of the men.
Suhail, Junaid, Hafizul Rehman, Karimuddin, and Arif are arrested for this dreadful deed. Sixth man Chothu a neighbor of the girls who allegedly introduced them to these men has also been arrested.
Suhail and Junaid took those girls to a sugarcane field and raped them. After raping them they killed the two girls and hung their bodies on a tree near the field, district police chief Sanjeev Suman told reporters.
The girls were hanged with their own dupattas and there are no visible injuries.
“When the girls insisted on marriage, the men strangled them with their dupatta. Then Karimuddin and Arif came to the spot and helped in the cover-up. They hung the bodies from the tree to make it look like suicide,” the officer said.
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All the men have been arrested from a neighboring village. Officer Sanjeev Suman asserted that five were detained yesterday and one was caught this morning in an encounter. “We have arrested each and everyone involved in the crime,” she said.
Their mother told police that the girls were abducted three hours before they were found dead. She said that three young men forcibly took away her daughters.
When police went to the victim’s residence to collect bodies for post-mortem they had to face protests by villagers.
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