Even before India could come over the pain and anger caused by the horrific Delhi gang-rape incident, another shocker – three sisters raped, killed and their bodies were dumped in a well.
The numbing atrocity on poor hapless girls occurred in Bhandara district of Maharashtra. The girls, aged 11, 8, and 6, went missing on February 14 after they did not return home from school.
Two days later their bodies were found in a well near Murmadi village in Lakhani town of Bhandara district. The well is near a farmhouse and a dhaba, about half a kilometre from the village. Their tiny slippers were found next to empty liquor bottles.
Some reports suggest that the fatherless girls – mother works as a domestic help and was away from home – driven by hunger had gone out to look for food and fell into a trap.
Inspector General (IG) of Police, Nagpur Range, Rajendra Singh, said, “The findings of the post-mortem report suggested that there was sexual assault on all three girls. But the report is not clear on how they were killed.”