Lakhimpur Kheri: Six males have been arrested on Thursday in reference to the alleged rape and homicide of two Dalit teenage sisters right here, police stated.
The ladies, aged 15 and 17, have been discovered hanging from a tree in a sugarcane discipline a few kilometre from their home within the Nighasan police station space on Wednesday.
“Now we have arrested Junaid, Sohail, Hafizur Rehman, Karimuddin, Arif and Chottu in an in a single day operation,” Lakhimpur Kheri Superintendent of Police (SP) Sanjiv Suman advised reporters.
Junaid and Sohail have been allegedly in a relationship with the 2 sisters, he stated.
“Based on preliminary investigation, the 2 sisters left their house on Wednesday afternoon after they have been persuaded by Junaid and Sohail. Junaid and Sohail have confessed that they strangulated the ladies after raping them,” the SP stated.
The duo then known as Karimuddin and Arif to get rid of their our bodies. They later hanged the our bodies from a tree to make it appear to be suicide, Suman stated.
An FIR has been registered underneath sections 302 (homicide), 323 (voluntarily inflicting damage), 452 (house-trespass after preparation for damage, assault or mistakenful restraint), 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code and the Safety of Kids from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he stated.
A autopsy examination is underway on the district hospital. Every little thing is being finished with the consent of the ladies’ members of the family, he stated.
The ladies’ mom had on Wednesday claimed that they have been murdered.
