Three sisters, aged 7, 9, and 11 gone
missing from school for two days and were later found on February 16
in a village in Bhandara distrist in Maharashtra. The area is more
than 1000 kilometers, which is about 630 miles south of the capital,
New Delhi. The mother of the three girls stated, “Police did
nothing for several days until villagers help protest.” Enraged
villagers forced shops to close, burned tires and blocked a national
highway passing in the area for hours earlier this week, demanding
justice.
Abhinav Deshmukh, a police officer on
the case, said “Friday that 10 teams of 30 investigators were
working on the case and that he was confident they would find the
killers soon.” The Press Trust of India news agency reported that
the case was first dismissed by the police as accidental. One police
officer has been suspended for taking this crime lightly and not
acting on it soon enough. PTI said after the autopsy of the girls
that was evidence showing that the girls were sexually abused and
murdered the police finally registered a case of rape and murder
This country is known for their high rates of crime especially involving women; a woman was recently gang rape on a moving New Delhi bus in December. The people of Indian are still angry about the incident and now they are furious after this comitted crime involing three innocense young girls. A new law enacted by the government has increased the prison sentences for rape from the existing seven to 10 years to a maximum of 20 years. It also provides for the death penalty in extreme cases of rape that result in death or leave the victim in a coma. Cabinet Minister Manish Tewari called the killings a "very, very heinous assault" and said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was sending 1 million rupees ($18,300) to the girls' family.
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