2 held over gang-rape of teenage girl in India
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POLICE in India have arrested two men over the gang-rape of a teenage girl whose body was found hanging from a tree, a senior officer said yesterday, a grim reminder of a similar case in the same state.
The girl, reportedly 15 and from one of India’s low social castes, was strangled — allegedly by three men — on Friday night outside her village in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Her body was found the next morning hanging by her scarf from a tree about a kilometer from her home in Bahraich district, said police Superintendent Salik Ram Verma.
Two men were arrested and “the third accused is on the run,” Verma said.
The girl had left her sleeping family to secretly meet one of the men, only to discover that he had brought along two of his friends who attacked her.
“When the girl resisted their bid, she was raped and later strangled. To make it look like a case of suicide, they hung her body from a tree and left the spot,” Verma said.
Four police officers have been suspended after an initial lack of action over the incident sparked outrage among villagers.
“I have suspended four constables for laxity and have issued stern instructions to the inspector concerned to book the third accused soon,” Verma said. “The medical report has confirmed rape and strangulation.”
The case comes two years after two girls from a low caste were found hanging in a village in Uttar Pradesh. Their families said they had been gang-raped before being lynched. The case sparked a political row after federal investigators concluded the girls had committed suicide and were not raped.
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