"If justice is not served, we will hang ourselves from the same mango tree, where our two daughters were found hanging," said father of a girl.
In a new twist in the Badaun killings case, the CBI, which is probing the matter, said the DNA report from the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) in Hyderabad confirmed contradictions in the theory of rape.
"Police provided clothes of the girls to CBI, which were sent for DNA testing. The role of police is suspicious since the begining," he alleged.
The two cousin sisters -- aged 14 and 15 -- were found hanging from a tree in Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh in the last week of May, an incident which sparked national outrage with the Samajwadi Party government in the state coming under fire on the issue of law and order situation.
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