Lakhimpur Kheri rape-murder accused likely to be slapped with NSA

TIL Desk/National/Lakhimpur/ The Uttar Pradesh Police is mulling over slapping the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against the six people arrested for the rape and murder of two Dalit sisters in the state’s Lakhimpur Kheri. The sisters, aged 15 and 17, were found hanging from a tree in a sugarcane field on Wednesday evening.

The NSA allows the detention of people up to one year without any charge. “We are mulling to impose the NSA on the six accused persons. Apart from this, DNA samples of the six accused persons and the two girls will also be sent for an examination,” Superintendent of Police Sanjiv Suman told on Friday.

Suman said none of the accused is minor, dismissing reports of the kin of some of them making the claiming. Meanwhile, Assistant District Government Counsel Brijesh Pandey said the accused were produced before a Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act court, which sent them to a 14-day judicial custody.