JOIN USThe Maharashtra Police, is reportedly grilling five people in connection with the triple murder of the minor girls in Bhandara district on Tuesday.
According to delayed reports trickling from the remote Lakani taluka, the police which was under tremendous pressure from all quarters to solve the case, had picked up five people on Monday night. However, sources disclosed that so far none have admitted to the crime.
The three sisters -aged five, nine and 11, went missing on February 14 and and their bodies were found in an abandoned well. The post-mortem later confirmed that the girls had been sexually abused before being killed.
The post-mortem report findings shook Vidarbha region and political parties organised road blockades near Murmadi village from where the victims hailed as well as in Lakhani taluka.
Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Javed Ahmed, following the situation spiralling out of control in the region rushed to the spot and formed over 11 teams of police to solve the murders.
The investigating teams after exploring several angles even scanned and studied satellite images of the fields where the girls were taken before being sexually abused and killed.
Shinde makes fresh statement
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Tuesday made a fresh statement in the Lok Sabha on the rape of three minor sisters at Bhandara district in Maharashtra, five days after he committed a faux pas by naming the victims in the Rajya Sabha, DHNS reports from New Delhi.
Shinde told the Lok Sabha that Maharashtra police had constituted teams to pursue different lines of investigation into the rape of the minor girls and track the offenders.