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NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters
Foundation) - Indian police have arrested one man and are looking for
four other suspects after two teenage girls were gang-raped and then
hanged from a tree in a village in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh,
police said on Thursday.
The two cousins, who were from a low-caste Dalit community and aged 14
and 15, went missing from their village home in Uttar Pradesh's Budaun
district when they went out to go to the toilet on Tuesday evening.
The following morning, villagers found the bodies of the two teenagers hanging from a mango tree in a nearby orchard.
"We have registered a case under various sections, including that of
rape, and one of the accused has been taken into custody. There were
five people involved, one has been arrested and we are looking for the
others," Budaun's Superintendent of Police Man Singh Chouhan told
reporters.Chouhan said a post-mortem confirmed the two minors were raped and died from the hanging. DNA samples have been also been taken to help identity the perpetrators, he added.
The victim's families say the girls were gang-raped and then hanged by
five men from the village. They allege that local police were shielding
the attackers as they refused to take action when the girls were first
reported missing.
It was
only after angry villagers found the hanging corpses and took the bodies
to a nearby highway and blocked it in protest, say the families, that
police registered a case of rape and murder.
A case of conspiracy has also been registered against two constables, said Chouhan, adding that they had also been suspended.
Sex crimes against young girls and women are widespread in India, say
activists, adding that females from poor, marginalized, low-caste
communities are often the victims.
A report by the Asian Centre for Human Rights in April last year said
48,338 child rape cases were recorded in India from 2001 to 2011, and
the annual number of reported cases had risen more than fourfold - 336
percent - over that period.
Women's rights experts and lawyers say rape victims also have to endure
harsh treatment from an archaic, poorly funded and insensitive criminal
justice system.
Police
often try to dissuade victims from complaining and suggest a
"compromise" between the victim and the perpetrator, largely because of
their insensitivity to sex crimes, but also because police officials are
rarely held accountable.
Public outrage over the fatal gang rape of a woman in New Delhi in
December 2012 pushed the government into passing a tougher new law to
punish sex crimes. This includes sentences of up to two years’ jail for
police and hospital authorities if they fail to register a complaint or
treat a victim.
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