Bhandara Rape Murders

• Maharashtra government hands over Bhandara case to CBI

  Facing flak for the "failure" of police to make headway in the probe of the alleged rape and murder of three minor sisters at Murmadi in Bhandara district, the Maharashtra government today announced that the case would be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

• Maharashtra Budget Session begins tomorrow; drought, Bhandara rape case to dominate

  Issues like severe drought in rural parts, the alleged rape and murder of three minor sisters in Bhandara district, SIT on irrigation are expected to dominate the Budget session of Maharashtra Legislature, starting tomorrow.

• Three detained for Bhandara rape of three young girls

  After an investigation impoverished in breakthroughs, the police in Bhandara in Maharashtra have detained three people for the rape and murder of three sisters between the ages of six and 11.

• After rape and murder of three young girls, signs of lapses in investigation

  It has been nearly two weeks since three sisters aged 11, nine, and six were raped and murdered in the Bhandara district of Maharashtra, but in the tiny village where they lived, nobody has been arrested yet.

• Bhandara: Police claim progress in minors' rape and murder case

  Ten days after the brutal rape and murder of three minor girls in Lakhani village in the Bhandara district of Maharashtra, there have been no arrests in the case yet. Police sources however say that they have made headway in the investigation and hope to arrest the culprits soon.

• School children hold silent protests over Bhandara rapes

  Hundreds took to streets on Saturday to protest the rape and murder of three minor sisters of Lakhani village here and also an alleged assault of a girl reported on Friday, police said.

• In Bhandara, another minor allegedly raped by teacher in school

  Within a week after the rape and murder of three minor girls of a family in Bhandara, a 14-year- old girl was allegedly raped by a teacher on school premises in the district.

• Bhandara rape-murders: School official suspended, 'did not report girls were missing'

  The headmaster of a school in Bhandara, Maharashtra where the three minor sisters, who were raped and murdered last week, studied has been suspended. The girls went missing from the school, not turning up for midday meals, but it is alleged he did not inform the family or the police.

• Bhandara rape-murders: No arrests a week later, mother says hang the culprits

  The mother of three little girls who were brutally raped, murdered and thrown into a well in a village in Maharashtra wants death sentence for the culprits. Only, no arrests have been made yet much to the anger of residents, who say they have stopped sending their children to school.

• 'Hang the culprits,' says family of three young girls raped, murdered

  Temper is rising among residents in Bhandara after police failed to make any arrest six days after three minor sisters were brutally raped, murdered and thrown into a well.

• 3 minor sisters raped, murdered in Maharashtra; bodies found in well

  The rape and murder of three young sisters in Maharashtra has shocked the state.

• 3 minor sisters looking for food raped, murdered at a dhaba in Maharashtra

  As India celebrated the One Billion Rising movement to fight violence against women on February 14, three little sisters aged five, nine and 11, went missing from their home in a small Maharashtra village. The next day, their dead bodies were found in a well on the outskirts of the village, next to a roadside dhaba or eatery.