Elder sister arrested for gangrape, murder of 13-yr-old girl

Lakhimpur: The elder sister planned and helped in the gang-rape and brutal murder of a minor girl who was strangulated to death with her own cloth after being gang-raped, here in Lakhimpur Kheri under Ramapur police outpost area.

Police sources here said that the deceased girl had witnessed her elder sister in an objectionable position with her friends and she had threatened her to inform their parents about her acts. After several spats, the elder sister took her to a farm for defecation where her friends gangraped her and then murdered her. Police investigations have revealed that Ranjeet, Amar Singh, Ankit, Sandeep, Deepu and Arjun were involved in the crime. Ranjeet Amar Singh and Sandeep Chauhan had gang-raped the minor girl in front of her elder sister while Arjun and Deepu were assisting them. After the gang-rape and murder, the elder sister calmly returned home and behaved normally in front of family members, police said

A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped by four men and strangled to death in the presence of and collusion with her elder sister in Lakhimpur Kheri district of UP, police said on Wednesday. The police have arrested seven people -- the four who allegedly raped the girl in a sugarcane field, her elder sister and two other men who stood guard during the commission of the crime -- Superintendent of Police of Lakhimpur Kheri district Sanjiv Suman told reporters. The accused are aged between 18 and 19 years. As per police, the sisters had frequent quarrels after the younger one recently came to know about the elder one’s illicit relations with the four men and objected to it. On Tuesday, the elder sister, on the pretext of attending to nature’s call, took the younger one with her to a nearby sugarcane field, where the 4 men -- identified as Ranjit Chauhan, Amar Singh, Ankit and Sandip Chauhan -- allegedly raped her. Then, the minor girl was strangled to death with her scarf.

The elder sister was present there while 2 other men -- Deepu Chauhan and Arjun -- stood guard, the police officer said. Her body was spotted by some villagers later that day, the police said. As per the SP, the accused confessed to their involvement in the crime and narrated the chain of events during interrogation.