Junaid, one among six accused in Lakhimpur rape-murder of two Dalit sisters, after his arrest.
Lakhimpur Kheri (Uttar Pradesh):
One of many predominant accused within the rape and homicide of two teenaged sisters in Lakhimpur Kheri was arrested this morning after an encounter, wherein the police shot him in his proper leg. A video exhibits the police bringing an injured Junaid out of a subject as he hobbles and will get assist from two cops.
Police stated Junaid — final of the six males arrested — was one of many two who have been pals with the ladies and bought them to come back with them on motorbikes. The ladies’ household has stated no such friendship existed they usually had been kidnapped. The our bodies, hanging by a tree, have been discovered yesterday close to their village.
A person named Chhotu had launched the ladies to the Junaid and Sohail, police stated. “These two males took them to a sugarcane farm yesteray, the place they raped them. After the ladies stated they’d now need to marry them, they bought offended. With assist from Hafizul, they strangled the ladies to loss of life. Then they known as Karimuddin and Arif, who helped them hold the ladies to make it appear like a suicide,” stated space police chief Sanjeev Suman.
Whereas Chhotu is from the victims’ neighbourhood, the opposite 5 are from a close-by village. “With these six arrests, all these concerned have been caught,” stated the police chief.
The ladies’ father has demanded the loss of life penalty for them. The state’s BJP authorities, saying that the case might be tried in a fast-rack court docket, has promised “such motion that the souls of their coming generations will shiver”.
The Opposition, together with BSP and Samajwadi Social gathering, have cited pervious instances too and termed this crime as “newest proof of how regulation and order has collapsed” in Uttar Pradesh.
