According
to Reuters, the two girls who were from a low-caste Dalit community went
missing from their village home when they went out to go to the toilet on
Tuesday evening, May 27th. The following morning, villagers found the bodies of the two teenagers hanging from a
mango tree in a nearby orchard.
Indian
police have arrested one man and are looking for four other suspects. The
police said a post-mortem confirmed the two minors were raped and died from the
hanging. DNA samples have also been taken to help identity the perpetrators,
the police told reporters.
The
victim's families allege that local police were shielding the attackers as they
refused to take action when the girls were first reported missing.
It
was only after angry villagers found the hanging corpses and took the bodies to
a nearby highway and blocked it in protest, that police registered a case of
rape and murder.