A team of CBI officials at the site where the two teenagers who were allegedly gang-raped before being hanged alive in Badaun in Uttar Pradesh are buried
The CBI's efforts to exhume the bodies of two teenagers who were allegedlygang-raped before being hanged alive in Uttar Pradesh's Badaun were todayhalted after their graves were submerged by rising water levels caused by therains. Both had been buried on the banks of the river Ganga.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which was handed over the investigation into the double murders that sparked global outrage, had decided to conduct fresh autopsies on the bodies of the cousins, aged 14 and 15, after the initial post-mortem report only suggested rape, without conclusively proving it.
(Read more...)"We will wait for the water to recede... It may take months," said one of the doctors who is part of the forensic team constituted by the CBI.
Yesterday, the graves were dug up till eight feet but the bodies still could not be located.
"If bodies don't come out today, the administration will have to put more effort to help the CBI... May be they are not helping enough," the brother of one of the girls told NDTV.
The CBI will also interrogate the doctors who conducted the initial post-mortem on the minors.
Late last month, the agency had completed lie-detector or polygraph tests on all the five men accused in the case as well as on the parents of the two girls. This was prompted by alleged inconsistencies in the statements of the victims' families.
(New Twist in Badaun Case: Did Girls' Families Hold Back Crucial Information?)"I am ready for any number of tests if it helps the case," the brother of one of the girls added.
The two cousins went missing from their house on the night of May 27 and their bodies were found hanging from a mango tree in the village orchard the next morning.