KATRA SHAHADATGANJ: The father of one of two girls gang-raped and lynched in northern India demanded yesterday that those arrested over the attacks be hanged amid mounting uproar over the crime.
As outrage grew over violence against women and girls, police reported a separate attack in the same state — in which a teenage girl was doused with kerosene and set alight after her father became involved in a property dispute.
The father of one of the murdered girls, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said he has refused compensation from the government of Uttar Pradesh state whom he blamed for failing to stop the attacks last Tuesday evening. The father said he only wanted justice for the men who attacked his daughter and niece, aged 14 and 12, who were found hanging from a tree the following morning. AFP
