UP gangrape case: Family blames cops, hunt on for accused

Badaun, UP: As outrage spread over the horrific gangrape of two Dalit sisters in the district, authorities today sacked two constables in connection with the crime even as police arrested another accused in the case. The action came three days after the girls were gangraped and their bodies were found hanging from a tree. SP Atul Kumar Saxena said the services of two constables Chhatrapal Yadav and Sarvesh Yadav have been terminated. Meanwhile according to an NDTV report, the family of the girls has blamed the police. The father of one of the two says they could have been saved had the police acted in time and said that “when the girls went missing, their brother went looking for them and returned to tell him that they had been abducted by some men from the village,” says the report. [caption id=“attachment_1550213” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Image taken from video, a crowd gathers near where two teenage sisters were found hanging from a mango tree in Katra village in Uttar Pradesh. AP[/caption] “One more accused Awadhesh Yadav has been arrested by the police,” he said. Of the seven wanted in the case, three (policeman Sarvesh Yadav and brothers Pappu and Awadhesh Yadav) have been arrested so far, he said. Sarvesh and Pappu were arrested yesterday. Four others Urvesh Yadav (brother of Pappu and Awadhesh), policeman Chhatrapal Yadav and two unidentified persons are at large. The two girls, who were cousins and aged 14 and 15, went missing from their house on the night of May 27 and their bodies were found hanging from a mango tree in the village in Ushait area the next morning. The incident had triggered protests in the area with villagers alleging police apathy, following which an FIR was registered against seven persons. The postmortem report of the two girls confirmed that they were raped before murder, Saxena had said. Sarvesh and Chhatrpal have been booked under section 120B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC, while the three brothers –Pappu, Awadhesh and Urvesh– and two others have been booked under Section 302 (murder) and 376 (rape) of IPC. PTI