<div align="justify">Two minor Dalit girls were allegedly raped and killed in separate incidents in Haryana, barely a month after a similar case involving a six-year-old girl shook the state.<br /><br />Police said one of the girls, a 15-year-old school student, had been brutally assaulted and her private parts mutiliated.<br /><br />The body of the other victim, an 11-year-old girl, was found in a village in Panipat district this morning, a police official said.<br /><br />The official said she was abudcted by two men last evening when she had gone out of her house to throw garbage in the village dumpyard.<br /><br />Rahul Sharma, superintendent of police, Panipat, told PTI over the phone that two men, who lived in her neighbourhood, were arrested today for the crime.<br /><br />After abducting her, the accused took her to a house where they allegedly raped and strangled her. They also burnt her clothes in a bid to destroy evidence, the SP said.<br /><br />The body of the 15-year-old girl, who had been missing since last Tuesday after she left home for tuition classes, was found near a canal at Budha Khera village in Jind district's Safidon town yesterday, the police said.<br /><br />The girl, who belonged to a village in Kurukshetra district, had been brutally assaulted, an official said.<br /><br />Her private parts were mutilated and some of her vital organs had been ruptured, the official said.<br /><br />She was a Class 10 student, the police said.<br /><br />Two special investigation teams (SITs) under DSP-rank officers have been constituted to probe the incident, the Jind police said.<br /><br />A hunt was on for the accused and a rape-and-murder case registered after a post-mortem report confirmed the assault, Sunil Kumar, who is heading one of the SITs, said over the phone today.<br /><br />The two incidents come close on the heels of another incident last month, in which a six-year-old girl was violently raped and killed in Haryana's Uklana area in Hisar district.<br /><br />The brutal rape of the six-year-old, and the recent savage incidents, were a stark reminder of the December 16, 2012, incident in Delhi, in which a physiotherapy intern was raped by a group of a men in a moving bus and a rod inserted into her body. She died in a hospital 13 days later.</div>
<div align="justify">Two minor Dalit girls were allegedly raped and killed in separate incidents in Haryana, barely a month after a similar case involving a six-year-old girl shook the state.<br /><br />Police said one of the girls, a 15-year-old school student, had been brutally assaulted and her private parts mutiliated.<br /><br />The body of the other victim, an 11-year-old girl, was found in a village in Panipat district this morning, a police official said.<br /><br />The official said she was abudcted by two men last evening when she had gone out of her house to throw garbage in the village dumpyard.<br /><br />Rahul Sharma, superintendent of police, Panipat, told PTI over the phone that two men, who lived in her neighbourhood, were arrested today for the crime.<br /><br />After abducting her, the accused took her to a house where they allegedly raped and strangled her. They also burnt her clothes in a bid to destroy evidence, the SP said.<br /><br />The body of the 15-year-old girl, who had been missing since last Tuesday after she left home for tuition classes, was found near a canal at Budha Khera village in Jind district's Safidon town yesterday, the police said.<br /><br />The girl, who belonged to a village in Kurukshetra district, had been brutally assaulted, an official said.<br /><br />Her private parts were mutilated and some of her vital organs had been ruptured, the official said.<br /><br />She was a Class 10 student, the police said.<br /><br />Two special investigation teams (SITs) under DSP-rank officers have been constituted to probe the incident, the Jind police said.<br /><br />A hunt was on for the accused and a rape-and-murder case registered after a post-mortem report confirmed the assault, Sunil Kumar, who is heading one of the SITs, said over the phone today.<br /><br />The two incidents come close on the heels of another incident last month, in which a six-year-old girl was violently raped and killed in Haryana's Uklana area in Hisar district.<br /><br />The brutal rape of the six-year-old, and the recent savage incidents, were a stark reminder of the December 16, 2012, incident in Delhi, in which a physiotherapy intern was raped by a group of a men in a moving bus and a rod inserted into her body. She died in a hospital 13 days later.</div>