First photos of the 2 teenage cousins gang-raped and brutally murdered in India

by Zara Mustapha

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The deceased cousins Pushpa, left, and Murti, right, were brutally killed and hung on a mango tree after they were gang-raped by a group of men including a police officer.

Three brothers today confessed to attacking and killing the young cousins,  in a case which has horrified India.

The crime provoked national outrage in India after it was revealed that the police initially refused to investigate the murder of the girls due to their low caste status.

Daily Mail reports:

The alleged killers – Pappu, Awadhesh and Urvesh Yadav – are members of the dominant Yadav caste, to which most of the local police also belong.

Low-caste villagers from the community in Uttar Pradesh state have expressed concern that they could also be targeted in the wake of the horrifying attacks.

Police officer Atul Saxena said today that the three men arrested over the crime had admitted their guilt while being held in custody.

He added that the authorities are still searching for two more suspects, and have prepared identity sketches in a bid to track them down.

In addition to the three suspected murderers, two police officers have been arrested for allegedly ignoring the victims’ parents when they reported that the girls, aged 14 and 15, had gone missing.

The girls’ murder has prompted protests in New Delhi and other Indian cities, in an echo of the outpouring of grief which came when a student was raped and killed on a bus in the capital in 2012.

In their home village, poor locals described their worries that they would be vulnerable to a similar attack in the future.

Murti and Pushpa disappeared on Tuesday night after going to a field near their home to relieve themselves, because they do not have their own toilet.  

 

Bereaved: Murti’s father Sohan paid tribute to his daughter, saying she was a keen linguist

Despair: Murti’s mother said she wants the killers to be hanged in order to secure justice

Mourning: Sohan is keen to see his daughter’s killers brought to justice

Poverty: The girls were killed while relieving themselves in a field because their house does not have a toilet

Most low-caste families are in the same situtation, with only the richest residents have access to a private bathroom.

‘We are scared,’ villager Renu Devi told CNN. ‘If this could happen to them, it could happen with us also.’

Murti’s father Sohan vowed to seek justice for his daughter as he described how she was a keen language student at the private school where he paid for her education. 

‘She liked studying English,’ he told the Independent on Sunday. ‘And when she completed school she wanted to get a job.’

Fury: Women participate in a protest in New Delhi after the case caused outrage across all of India

Vigil: An activist lights a candle on the Delhi pavement as part of memorial protests

Yesterday, his wife called for the killers to be executed, saying: ‘Money can’t bring back my daughter but the hanging of her killers would give peace to her soul.’

And Pushpa’s father Babu Ram accused the police of ignoring his family because they belong to the Dalit caste – formerly known as ‘untouchables’.

He said: ‘At the police station, the first thing they asked is what caste we came from. And when we told them we were Dalits, they didn’t entertain our complaints.’ 

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