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| Five suspects in custody over India cousins gang-rape |
| 2014-06-01 |
[DAWN] Five men have been tossed in the slammerPlease don't kill me! over the gang-rape and deaths of two girls found hanging from a mango tree in a northern Indian village, police said Saturday. The discovery of the two cousins, aged 14 and 12, in the Budaun district of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday is the latest sexual violence case to have stirred national outrage. "Rape on both the girls has been confirmed. The cause of their death was asphyxia," Budaun district police superintendent Atul Saxena told AFP. Saxena said preliminary cases had been filed against five men who were all being held in jug. Three are accused of rape while two coppers face charges of conniving with criminals and neglecting their duties. Two other men were also named in a police complaint filed by the victims' families but their whereabouts were unknown, Saxena added. The farming family of the two cousins from the lowest Dalit caste told AFP police could have "saved" the girls but claimed they refused to help when they found they were from a lower caste. "She was my everything, my world -- and now my world has come to an end," the grief-stricken father of one victim said. The alleged attackers were also from a higher caste. There is a long history of women and girls from India's lower castes -- especially those who belong to the Dalit caste who were previously known as "untouchables" -- of being sexually abused by people from higher castes. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Untouchables? Really? Seems like they got touched. Seems like they ought to find a word that better suits the situation. |
| Posted by: gorb 2014-06-01 03:00 |