Lucknow: In a shocking replay of the Badaun incident, two sisters were found hanging from a tree under mysterious circumstances in Chandanpur village in Nanpara in Bahraich district, late on Saturday night.
The two sisters, Rupa and Sanju, aged 19 and 21 years respectively, had left home saying that they wanted to relieve themselves and when they did not return till late in the evening, the family members set out to look for them.
The bodies of the girls were found hanging from a tree in the orchard outside the village.
ASP Arvind Pandey said that the girls had been scolded by their brother Manoj for not helping his wife in household work. Manoj’s wife is pregnant and had asked the sisters to finish the house work.
While the police are working on the suicide theory, the murder angle is also not being ruled out because not a single branch of the tree on which the bodies were hanging, was found broken.
“If the sisters had climbed the tree and then committed suicide, at least some branch would have been disturbed in the process. The bodies have been sent for post mortem and we are waiting for the report before taking the investigations further”, said an investigating officer.
The police, however, have said that there are no apparent signs of the girls having been sexually assaulted before their death.
It may be recalled that in May 2014, two cousin sisters had been found hanging from a tree in Badaun district and the case was later entrusted to the CBI which claimed it was a case of suicide but the court refused to accept the closure report on the matter.
