3 suspects admit gang rape of teenagers
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THREE suspects have confessed to the gang rape and slaying of two teenage girls found hanging from a tree in northern India last week, police said yesterday.
The search for two others is continuing, police officer Atul Saxena said.
India has a long history of tolerance for sexual violence. But the gang rape and killing of the two cousins, aged 14 and 15, in Uttar Pradesh state caused outrage across the nation. The girls, from an impoverished family with no toilets in their home, disappeared on Tuesday night after going into fields to relieve themselves.
Saxena said police were preparing sketches of the two missing suspects based on descriptions provided by the men arrested in the village of Katra, about 300 kilometers from Lucknow, the state capital.
The three detained suspects are cousins in their 20s and they face murder and rape charges, crimes punishable by death.
Authorities have also arrested two police officers and suspended another two for failing to investigate when the father of one of the teenagers reported the girls missing.
Also in Uttar Pradesh, police yesterday arrested two people for setting a 16-year-old girl on fire after sprinkling kerosene on her following a land dispute with her father in Kaptanganj, nearly 200 kilometers southeast of Lucknow.
The girl suffered burns over a quarter of her body, a police spokesman said.
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