in India who accused them of defiling and hanging a seven-year-old
girl. The girl was discovered hanging from a tree near the village of
Kaliabazar, West Bengal, this morning and angry villagers quickly
rounded up a local 'Tantrik' holy man and his two friends.
The trio were mercilessly beaten. One later died in hospital and the
two others are still being treated.
It was a grim reminder of the recent gang-r*pe case in Badaun, Uttar
Pradesh, where two sisters were defiled and then hanged from a tree
outside their village.
After a string of high-profile cases, India has become notorious for
savage s*xual attacks on often young women and girls.
However, the number of r*pes recorded in the country is still far
lower than countries such as the U.S. and UK, according to figures
from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
The victim in the most-recent case had gone missing last night, after
apparently going out to the neighbourhood shop.
The Hindustan Times reports that people went around the village to
gather a search party, which found her body handing from a tree.
Word spread and rumours began circulating that she had been
gang-defiled, spurring villagers to round up Ratan Das, a local
Tantrik, or Hindu witchdoctor, and two of his associates.
The mob beat up the men and also set fire to a house belonging to Das,
who had been seen with the victim yesterday morning.
Then they went to police.
Sukesh Kumar Jain, East Midnapore Superintendent of Police, told the
Hindustan Times: 'The father of the girl lodged a complaint at the
local police station against three persons.
'One of the three accused has already died.'
There is as yet no evidence that the girl was defiled before she was
killed. Police said they are not ruling out a family feud as the
motive behind the killing.
'We are awaiting the autopsy report to confirm r*pe,' said a police
officer. 'There was also some enmity between the families of the girl
and the prime accused, Ratan Das.'
Culled from UK Daily Mail
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