Police in northern India have arrested three men and are searching for at least four more after two teenage girls were found hanged from the branches of a mango a tree after being gang-raped. A postmortem indicated that the cousins, aged 14 and 15, hanged themselves after being repeatedly assaulted by a group of local men in their village, in the Budaun district of the huge, poverty-stricken state of Uttar Pradesh. The social stigma attached to being a rape victim in conservative India frequently leads to suicides. Earlier reports suggested the victims had been strangled. The incident provoked angry demonstrations locally, and outrage elsewhere in the country. “It is a gruesome, barbaric act. The whole nation has been up against this but every day there is this kind of problem,” said Ranjana Kumari, director of the Centre for Social Research and a women’s rights activist. Indian TV channels showed footage of the villagers sitting under the girls’ bodies as they swung in the wind, preventing authorities from taking them down until the suspects were arrested. The bodies had been found on wednesday morning, hours after the two teenagers had disappeared from fields near their home in the village of Katra,… Read full this story
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