{"id":558,"date":"2014-08-21T16:20:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T16:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=558"},"modified":"2014-08-21T16:20:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T16:20:22","slug":"hanged-india-girls-rape-in-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Hanged India girls\u2019 \u2018rape\u2019 in doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A forensic investigation into clothing and swabs taken after the murder and alleged gang rape of two teenage cousins in northern India has concluded they were not sexually assaulted.<\/p>\n

The girls were found hanged from a tree in Uttar Pradesh state in May, in a case which sparked global outrage.<\/p>\n

Three suspected attackers were taken into custody along with two policemen.<\/p>\n

At the time a local post-mortem examination confirmed multiple sexual assaults and death due to hanging.<\/p>\n

The case was initially investigated by the state police, but later handed over to federal investigators at India\u2019s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).<\/p>\n

Correspondents say it is not clear how the CBI will be able to resolve the apparent contradictions between the latest forensic conclusions and the earlier post-mortem performed by the local authorities.<\/p>\n

The father of one of the victims said he was shocked by the latest report.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know whether the samples sent to the labs were of my daughter or of someone else. Ever since the post-mortem was conducted every effort has been made to conceal the facts\u2026 Justice is being denied to us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Last month, the CBI attempted to exhume the bodies of the girls but their graves were under floodwaters and remain inaccessible to this day.<\/p>\n

But India\u2019s Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) was able to examine the clothes and personal effects of the two girls and reported that it found no proof of sexual assault, a CBI spokesperson told BBC Hindi.<\/p>\n

The CBI refused to provide any more details, but media reports quoting sources in the CDFD said \u201cno male DNA had been found on the clothes and personal effects\u201d of the girls and also \u201cno female DNA was found on the samples taken from the male suspects\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Indian Express reported<\/a>\u00a0that the laboratory analysed \u201citems of clothing\u201d and personal effects worn by the two victims as well as the clothes worn by the accused. It also said that blood samples and swabs from both the victims and the accused were examined.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A forensic investigation into clothing and swabs taken after the murder and alleged gang rape of two teenage cousins in northern India has concluded they were not sexually assaulted. The girls were found hanged from a tree in Uttar Pradesh state in May, in a case which sparked global outrage. Three suspected attackers were taken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-90","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}