Tension ran high in the Kairana area of Shamli district and police had to resort to mild lathi charge after the body of the second sister, both of whom were kidnapped on July 24, was recovered from the jungle on Wednesday morning.
After the news of the recovery of the second sister’s body spread, local villagers in Kairana blocked the Panipat-Khatima bypass and staged protest with the body of the girl. large contingent of police forces were rushed to the spot to control the mob. There was a pitched battle between the police and the mob when the authorities tried to take the body. later after perusal, the agitated people allowed the body to be taken for postmortem and called off their agitation. The villagers, however, charged the local police with shielding the criminals and also demanded CBI probe into the crime and adequate compensation to the family of the girls.
Two sisters, 24-year-old Shazia and 17-year-old Razia (both name changed), hailing from Afganan hamlet of Kairana went missing under mysterious circumstances on July 24 last. Their father reported the matter to the local police who tried to hush up the case registering it just under Section 363 IPC for luring the duo and kidnapping them. On August 2, the body of the elder sister was recovered about 3 kms away from her residence. The family members identified the victim but still the local police not turned serious and just sent the body for post-mortem examination. Their negligence proved fatal for the second girl also, whose body was recovered from a nearby jungle in Malakpur village in Kairanaon Wednesday morning. The recovery of the body went like a wild fire and over three hundred of villagers gathered and the snatched the body from the possession of the cops who were shifting it for autopsy. The protesters kept the body on road and blocked road for several hours.
local police on Wednesday claimed that the post-mortem report of the elder sister revealed that she was strangulated to death and her hymen was found ruptured so they altered the case into abduction, rape, murder and for dumping the body to conceal the crime. They also claimed to have arrested Adnan and Mehmood, on Wednesday morning and said that duo were involved in the crime. The cops suspected that the second daughter was also raped and murdered but still they were waiting for outcome of autopsy report. The victim’s father had also named a dozen persons, all his neighbours and relatives, in an FIR registered at Kairana police station. In his complaint, he had accused his neighbours of kidnapping the two girls from their maternal uncle’s house on July 24 night while all the family members were sleeping. A sub-inspector attached with Kairana police station, C P Kateria, has been suspended for negligence in dealing with the case.