Forensic report complicates India double rape, murder case


  • World
  • Friday, 22 Aug 2014

Onlookers sit at the site where two girls were hanged from a tree at Badaun district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh May 28, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW (Reuters) - Indian federal investigators are analysing a forensic report that found that two teenage girls, earlier believed to have been raped before they were murdered, were not sexually assaulted.

Images of the cousins, still hanging from a mango tree in a village in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, shocked the world in May and threw light on an enduring culture of sexual and caste violence in India.

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