Uttar Pradesh Police (file)
Lucknow:
The bodies of two girls – a 16-year-old and a 14-year-old – were found hanging from a tree in a village in the Kotwali area of Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur district late on Wednesday night. She was allegedly forced to drink alcohol and then sexually assaulted by the 18-year-old son and 19-year-old nephew of a local contractor.
The bodies have been sent for post-mortem and the accused including the contractor have been arrested. Police said they could be charged with gang rape and abetment of suicide as well as under the POCSO Act.
Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Harish Chander said, “Last night, information was received about the bodies of two girls. The bodies were recovered and sent for post-mortem. The three accused – distant relatives of the girls – Has been arrested.” Said.
“It is said that the girls were beaten and sexually assaulted based on some videos,” the senior policeman said, adding that forensic experts had examined the spot where the bodies were found.
According to their families, the girls had gone to the fields to relieve themselves late yesterday evening. When his family did not return and searched, his body was found hanging from a nearby plum tree.
The family members have told the police that the girls were first made to drink alcohol and then they were raped.
The accused also made a video of the attack and used it to blackmail the girls, their families told the police, alleging that the girls took their lives due to the injury and humiliation they suffered. Officials said police have recovered videos and photographs from the mobile phones of the accused and they are being investigated.
Both the girls and their families worked at a brick kiln run by a contractor and their bodies were found less than 400 meters away from the kiln, news agency PTI reported.
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