Silchar: In a chilling reminder of the Badaun ‘rape’ and murder incident, villagers of Kabulpunjee in Assam’s Karimganj district spotted the bodies of two minor girls hanging from the branch of a tree on Thursday.
The post-mortem report of two schoolgirls, who were found hanging from the two ends of the same rope from a tree in Assam’s Karimganj district, is likely to come out on Saturday. The bodies were handed over to the girls’ respective families last night.
The incident is reminiscent of the Badaun gang-rape and murder in Uttar Pradesh.
The girls, one a Class 10 and the other a Class nine student, of a school in Nilambazar area had been missing since Wednesday evening, police had said on Friday. The family members frantically looked for them, but failed to locate them.
The next morning, a relative of one of the girls spotted the bodies hanging from a tree.
The tree is located barely two km from the India-Bangladesh border. Locals suspect that the girls were first raped and then killed to cover up the crime.
Police said that the girls were hanged with two ends of one rope. In Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district, two teenage cousins were gang-raped and hanged from a tree in Katra Sadatganj village, a crime that grabbed global headlines.
Bureau Report
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