GG News Bureau
Lakhimpur Kheri, 15th September. Six men were arrested on Thursday in connection with the alleged rape and murder of two Dalit teenage sisters in Lakhimpur Kheri, the police said.
On Wednesday, the girls, ages 15 and 17, were found hanging from a tree in a sugarcane field about a kilometer from their home in the Nighasan police station area.
“In an overnight operation, we arrested Junaid, Sohail, Hafizur Rehman, Karimuddin, Arif, and Chottu,” 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 Wednesday 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, Suman said.
An FIR has been registered under sections 302 (murder), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 452 (house-trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrong ful 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.
On Wednesday, the girls’ mother claimed that they were murdered.
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