CBI files closure report in Badaun case

Reporting its finding that the two cousin sisters in Badaun village committed suicide in May and were not raped and murdered as initially suspected by the Uttar Pradesh police, the CBI on Thursday filed a closure report in the case.

The agency presented its report before Special Judge Anil Kumar in Badaun saying that there was no forensic or circumstantial evidence suggesting rape and murder as alleged in the FIR registered by the police after the girls were found hanging in the village.

The CBI said the girls took their own lives fearing social ostracism and retaliation as the affair of the elder girl with a local boy from a different caste had come to light.