Indian sisters found hanged in suspected rape case

Two teenage sisters have been found hanging from a tree in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in a suspected case of rape and murder.

Police said the bodies were found on Wednesday afternoon in Lakhimpur district. They have started an investigation after the family alleged the girls had been kidnapped and raped.

Six men have been arrested on charges of rape and murder.

The 15- and 17-year-old girls belonged to the Dalit community, the lowest rung of India's rigid caste hierarchy, and were found hanging from a tree in a sugarcane field near their house in Lakhimpur Kheri district, police said.

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.

According to the police, the men, who were all from the same village, had been known to the girls and the pair had gone with them willingly on Wednesday afternoon.

The mother of the two girls disputed this account and said two of the men had turned up at the house on Wednesday afternoon and forcibly taken away her daughters on scooters. “I tried to stop them and ran behind them, but they beat me up and left. I shouted and ran back to seek help from the villagers,” she told local media.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/15/india-uttar-pradesh-teenage-sisters-raped-murdered

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/men-arrested-rape-killing-teenage-indian-sisters-89946285

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-62910525

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