Lakhimpur Kheri district in Uttar Pradesh is once again making national headlines for the wrong reasons after the bodies of two teenage Dalit sisters were found hanging from a tree under the Nighasan police station area on Wednesday. The victims’ family has now demanded capital punishment for the accused of raping the girls before killing them.
The brutal killing sparked wide-scale outrage and a war of words with all the Opposition parties in the State targeting the BJP-led government for failure on the law-and-order front.
Six persons, including a local villager, Chotu Gautam, and five others from neighbouring Lalpur village named Suhail, Hafizul Rehman, Junaid, Karimuddin, and Arif have been arrested on charges of rape and murder. The postmortem, conducted late on September 14 at the Lakhimpur Kheri District Hospital, revealed the girls had faced sexual violence before being murdered.
