Days after issuing a notice to the Uttar Pradesh Government on the alleged gangrape and murder of two Dalit sisters in Lakhimpur Kheri, a team of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) on Monday visited the spot to begin an independent probe into the incident.
Last week, the bodies of the two girls, aged 17 and 15, were found hanging from a tree in the Nighasan police station area of Lakhimpur Kheri district, following which the local police arrested six persons for the rape and murder of the girls, one of whom — Chotu Gautam — is a local from the victims’ Tamoli Purwa village, and five others — Suhail, Hafizul Rehman, Junaid, Karimuddin and Arif — are from the neighbouring Lalpur village.
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