2 teenage sisters found hanging from a tree after being gang-raped by policeman, others - Photos

Two teenage sisters aged 14 and 15 have were found dead hanging from a rope on a mango tree after they had been raped by some unknown men, near home in Katra village in Uttar Pradesh state in India.

A gang of men - including at least one police officer – allegedly raped and killed the two sisters and hung their bodies from the mango tree.

The deceased girls had gone into the fields to ease themselves as there was no toilet in their home.

There has been a silent protest for justice for the girls by hundreds of angry villagers crowded round the tree preventing the bodies of the girls being taken down till the perpetrators are caught and brought to justice.

Daily Mail reports:

Indian TV footage showed the villagers sitting under the girls’ bodies as they swung in the wind, preventing authorities from taking them down until the suspects were arrested.

Amid conflicting reports, police are believed to have arrested four men later in the day and were searching for three more suspects.

Some reports said one police officer was among those arrested, while others said one.

It was also reported that just one person had been apprehended.

 

Demanding answers: A police officer listens to villagers who have accused the chief of the local police station of ignoring a complaint by the girls’ father on the night when they went missing

Outrage: Young girls hold banners during a protest over the rape and murder of the two sisters

Katra is about 300 kilometers (180 miles) southwest of the state capital, Lucknow.

Autopsies confirmed the girls had been gang-raped and strangled before being hanged, police Superintendent Atul Saxena said.

The villagers accused the chief of the local police station of ignoring a complaint by the girls’ father on Tuesday night when they went missing.

Three policemen have been removed from duty for not registering cases when the girls were reported missing.

The family belongs to the Dalit community, also called ‘untouchables’ and considered the lowest rung in India’s age-old caste system.

India tightened its anti-rape laws last year, making gang rape punishable by the death penalty, even in cases where the victim survives.

 

Protest: Villagers gathered around the bodies to prevent the authorities from taking them down until the suspects were arrested

The new laws came after the fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in New Delhi that triggered nationwide protests.

Records show a rape is committed every 22 minutes in India, a nation of 1.2 billion people.

Activists say that number is low because of an entrenched culture of tolerance for sexual violence, which leads many cases to go unreported.

Women are often pressed by family or police to stay quiet about sexual assault, experts say, and those who do report cases are often subjected to public ridicule or social stigma.

Last month, the head of Uttar Pradesh state’s governing party, the regionally prominent Samajwadi Party, told an election rally that the party was opposed to the law calling for gang rapists to be executed.

‘Boys will be boys,’ Mulayam Singh Yadav said. ‘They make mistakes.’

Two teenage sisters aged 14 and 15 have were found dead hanging from a rope on a mango tree after they had been raped by some unknown men, near home in Katra village in Uttar Pradesh state in India.

A gang of men - including at least one police officer – allegedly raped and killed the two sisters and hung their bodies from the mango tree.

The deceased girls had gone into the fields to ease themselves as there was no toilet in their home.

There has been a silent protest for justice for the girls by hundreds of angry villagers crowded round the tree preventing the bodies of the girls being taken down till the perpetrators are caught and brought to justice.

Daily Mail reports:

Indian TV footage showed the villagers sitting under the girls’ bodies as they swung in the wind, preventing authorities from taking them down until the suspects were arrested.

Amid conflicting reports, police are believed to have arrested four men later in the day and were searching for three more suspects.

Some reports said one police officer was among those arrested, while others said one.

It was also reported that just one person had been apprehended.

 

Demanding answers: A police officer listens to villagers who have accused the chief of the local police station of ignoring a complaint by the girls’ father on the night when they went missing

Outrage: Young girls hold banners during a protest over the rape and murder of the two sisters

Katra is about 300 kilometers (180 miles) southwest of the state capital, Lucknow.

Autopsies confirmed the girls had been gang-raped and strangled before being hanged, police Superintendent Atul Saxena said.

The villagers accused the chief of the local police station of ignoring a complaint by the girls’ father on Tuesday night when they went missing.

Three policemen have been removed from duty for not registering cases when the girls were reported missing.

The family belongs to the Dalit community, also called ‘untouchables’ and considered the lowest rung in India’s age-old caste system.

India tightened its anti-rape laws last year, making gang rape punishable by the death penalty, even in cases where the victim survives.

 

Protest: Villagers gathered around the bodies to prevent the authorities from taking them down until the suspects were arrested

The new laws came after the fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in New Delhi that triggered nationwide protests.

Records show a rape is committed every 22 minutes in India, a nation of 1.2 billion people.

Activists say that number is low because of an entrenched culture of tolerance for sexual violence, which leads many cases to go unreported.

Women are often pressed by family or police to stay quiet about sexual assault, experts say, and those who do report cases are often subjected to public ridicule or social stigma.

Last month, the head of Uttar Pradesh state’s governing party, the regionally prominent Samajwadi Party, told an election rally that the party was opposed to the law calling for gang rapists to be executed.

‘Boys will be boys,’ Mulayam Singh Yadav said. ‘They make mistakes.’

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