Mewat gang rape: No evidence of to link cow vigilantes, says police

One of the Mewat gang rape victims has alleged that their attackers were cow vigilantes.

Updated - October 18, 2016 03:10 pm IST

Published - September 10, 2016 04:00 pm IST - Chandigarh

One of the Mewat gang rape victims has alleged that their attackers were cow vigilantes but the Haryana police on Saturday said no evidence has so far come to fore suggesting that the four accused arrested in the case were part of any cow protection group.

The family of the victims alleged that they had informed the police personnel about the cow vigilantes but they chose to ignore it.

“We told this to the police but they are not doing anything,” one of the two victims said.

>A couple was murdered and two girls from the family allegedly gang-raped after the accused had barged into their house in the wee hours on August 25 in a village in Mewat district.

“I need justice. They have killed by son and daughter-in-law. They have gang raped my grand-daughters. The way police has behaved, we have no hope,” said a relative of the victims.

Police said that the investigation in the case is still on and so far they have not found any link with cow vigilantes.

“So far there is no such evidence of them (accused) being cow vigilantes or being part of cow vigilante group,” Inspector General of Police, South Range, Rewari, Mamta Singh said.

She, however, said that investigations in the case was continuing.

Ms. Singh said that the case has been recommended to be transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation.

>On August 28, Haryana Police had arrested four youths in connection with incident.

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