UP Rape-Murder Victims' Family Rejects "Friendship" Theory: "Police Must Probe Further," Says Brother
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Police have said the men took the girls along on account of friendship; but brother says family would've known if they were friends
Family of the two Dalit sisters raped and murdered in UP's Lakhimpur Kheri district have sought "further investigation" and questioned the police's claim that the girls. 15 and 17, had been friends with the men who carried out the crime.
"The cops should give us more proof. In a village, families come to know who's friends with whom," the victims' brother said.
Of the six men arrested, one is from the girls' neigbourhood while the others are from a village nearby. Police have said the girls were "not forcibly taken or abducted" but had gone with three of them on motorbikes. "These men later forced themselves on them in a field, raping them. When the girls said they'd have to marry them, the men got angry and strangled them with their dupattas," said Superintendent of Police Sanjeev Suman earlier today. Two of their friends helped them hang the girls so that it looks like a suicide, according to the police.
The girls' mother had told the police that they were kidnapped three hours before they were found dead. "Three young men forcibly took them away on motorcycles," she had alleged.
