[Megamel29]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/worl...icle-1.1809604

Four men, including two police officers, were arrested in India Thursday after police said they raped two teenage sisters and hanged them from a tree. Police are searching for three more suspects. The girls, 14 and 15 years old, disappeared from their home Wednesday.

LUCKNOW, India — A group of men, including at least two police officers, raped and killed two teenage sisters in rural India then hung their bodies from a mango tree, authorities said Thursday, announcing the arrests of four men.
Villagers found the girls' bodies hanging from the tree Wednesday morning, hours after they disappeared from fields near their home in Katra village in Uttar Pradesh state, police Superintendent Atul Saxena said. The girls, who were 14 and 15, had gone into the fields because there was no toilet in their home.
Hundreds of angry villagers stayed next to the tree for the rest of Wednesday, silently protesting alleged police inaction in the case. Indian TV footage showed the villagers sitting under the girls' bodies as they swung in the wind, and preventing authorities from taking them down from the tree until the suspects were arrested.
Katra is about 180 miles southwest of the state capital, Lucknow.
Police arrested the four men later in the day and were searching for three more suspects.

Autopsies confirmed the girls had been gang-raped and strangled before being hanged, Saxena said.
The villagers accused the chief of the local police station of ignoring a complaint by the girls' father Tuesday night that the girls were missing. The station chief has since been suspended.
The family belongs to the Dalit community, also called "untouchables" and considered the lowest rung in India's age-old caste system.
India tightened its anti-rape laws last year, making gang rape punishable by the death penalty, even in cases where the victim survives. The new laws came after the fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in New Delhi that triggered nationwide protests.


Records show a rape is committed every 22 minutes in India, a nation of 1.2 billion people. Activists say that number is low because of an entrenched culture of tolerance for sexual violence, which leads many cases to go unreported. Women are often pressed by family or police to stay quiet about sexual assault, experts say, and those who do report cases are often subjected to public ridicule or social stigma.
Last month, the head of Uttar Pradesh state's governing party, the regionally prominent Samajwadi Party, told an election rally that the party was opposed to the law calling for gang rapists to be executed.
"Boys will be boys," Mulayam Singh Yadav said. "They make mistakes."




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[K9Grip]

boys will be boys? Fuck you fuckhead. I hope you are raped with a crowbar and burned alive.

[Nasty Nuggets]

What's the deal with India and rape?

[Photoplay]

Makes my heart sad.

[Zoomshyne]

[knuggy]

Seems to be a rape culture there. Obviously no easy fix as it has been in the western media quite a bit as of late with no signs of slowing down

[Pigeon]

Originally Posted by Megamel29 ↗

"Boys will be boys," Mulayam Singh Yadav said. "They make mistakes."

Well, there's that old chestnut taken to its logical conclusion.

[Cads]

I wonder how he'd feel after being gang raped himself.

Boys will be boys

[el_topo]

Its events such as this that convinces me that Eastern cultures are in fact primitive, barbaric, and cruel. The only other thing I can compare them to are the Pagans, devil worshippers. I just don't understand it, how can you have a whole nation of starving children, yet deny them beef and milk because cows are sacred? If that's true I'm devouring reincarnated Hindus everytime I have steak for dinner.

[rapeWhistle]

That's a pretty big mango tree... just sayin'...