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The girls, aged 15 and 17, were found hanging from a tree in a sugarcane field located about a kilometre away from their house on September 14
The girls, aged 15 and 17, were found hanging from a tree in a sugarcane field located about a kilometre away from their house on September 14
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Six men were arrested on September 15 in connection with the alleged rape and murder of two Dalit teenage sisters in Lakimpur Kheri, police said.
The girls, aged 15 and 17, were found hanging from a tree in a sugarcane field about a kilometre from their house in the Nighasan police station area on Wednesday.
“We have arrested Junaid, Sohail, Hafizur Rehman, Karimuddin, Arif and Chottu in an overnight operation,” Lakhimpur Kheri Superintendent of Police (SP) Sanjiv Suman told reporters.
Junaid and Sohail were allegedly in a relationship with the two sisters, he said.
“According to preliminary investigation, the two sisters left their home on September 14 afternoon after they were persuaded by Junaid and Sohail. Junaid and Sohail have confessed that they strangulated the girls after raping them,” the SP said.
The duo then called Karimuddin and Arif to dispose of their bodies. They later hanged the bodies from a tree to make it look like suicide, he added.
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An FIR has been registered under sections 302 (murder), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 452 (house-trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint), 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he said.
A post-mortem examination is underway at the district hospital. Everything is being done with the consent of the girls’ family members, he said.
The girls’ mother had on Wednesday claimed that they were murdered.
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