Two teenage Dalit sisters found hanging from tree in UP’s Lakhimpur Kheri

Last Updated Sep - 14 - 2022, 10:33 PM | Source : FELA News

The mother of the girls told reporters that she suspected her daughters were murdered. She alleged that three youngsters of the neighbouring village on a bike a

Dalit sisters found hanging

New Delhi: Two minor Dalit teenage sisters were found hanging from a tree in a sugarcane field in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri on Wednesday, September 14, 2022. The bodies were seen hanging from a tree in the Lalpur Majra Tamoli Purva village that comes under the Nighasan police station of Lakhimpur Kheri district. Local villagers and the girl’s family accused three men of rape and murder and staged a demonstration at the Nighasan crossing, a few kilometres from the village.

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Lucknow range inspector general (IG) of police Laxmi Singh and Lakhimpur Kheri superintendent of police (SP) Sanjiv Suman, to the protest site to assure villagers that strict action will be taken against the accused.

"Bodies of two girls were found hanging from a tree in a field outside a village in Lakhimpur Kheri. No injuries were found on the bodies. The bodies have been sent for post-mortem and reports are awaited. Other things to be ascertained after post-mortem. We'll try to expedite the probe," Lucknow range inspector general (IG) of police Laxmi Singh told news agency ANI.

The senior police officers assured the villagers that the police will work out the case quickly and urged the villagers to call off their road-block and cooperate with the post-mortem examination.

The mother of the girls told reporters that she suspected her daughters were murdered. She alleged that three youngsters of the neighbouring village on a bike abducted the two girls from near a hutment while the two sisters were cutting fodder.

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The mother said, “I was bathing inside the hutment when three youths of the neighbouring village arrived, one in a yellow T-shirt, another in a white one and the third in a blue T-shirt.”

Lakhimpur Kheri district has witnessed similar incidents of crime against women in the past. Three minor girls were raped and murdered in different parts of the district between August 14 and September 3, 2020.

In 2020, a 19-year-old Dalit woman was raped allegedly by four upper-caste men in Hathras. She later died on September 29 at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital.

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