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WOMEN IN INDIA
In 22 century India found as more liberal and dimensionally over viewed perception but on the other side of picture is that India 85% of women population face terrible and sexual threats as one story highlight but number of stories hide under tears or suicides.Because another fact indian society face number of social evils. After the bodies of two sisters were found hanging from a tree in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the post-mortem report has confirmed that both were raped and killed. The BBC's Geeta Pandey visited the girls' village in Lakhampur, where the families of the girls are trying to cope with what happened to them. Due to heavy rains since Wednesday night, the area is in a bad condition, the narrow street leading to their house in the village is full of mud. This village is about 200 km away from the state capital Lucknow. The gloomy scene inside this two-room house and the gray cloudy sky outside are almost identical.Here sits the family of Dalit sisters aged and 15 whose lives were brutally ended. She was strangled to death after being raped in a sugarcane field not far from her home. Their mother is the only witness to the abduction of her daughters by three men on a motorcycle on Wednesday evening. She sits on four legs and is surrounded by female relatives. It is impossible to console them. She asks, 'My daughters are gone. How will I live now?'Tears were flowing down their cheeks. "She used to live here," he said while patting his chest. A minute later his sadness turned to anger. "I want to see these men hanged, the way they hanged my daughters," she said. The dead bodies of the Larkis were found hanging from a tree near a sugarcane field.Six people have been arrested for the rape and murder of the girls. One person is his neighbor while the other five are Muslim men from nearby villages. The double murder has highlighted the issue of sexual violence faced by 80 million Dalit women in India, the Dalit community at the bottom of India's caste system. Critics say caste-based sexual violence in India is due to the government's failure, the police being slow to file complaints and even when they do, questioning whether it was rape or not. In the past, authorities have protected criminals. Several politicians and NGOs have visited his family .This time too, the police investigation has raised suspicions and this attitude has led to protests by local people and opposition parties. Police say the sisters were in a relationship with the two men who killed the girls because they were pressuring them to marry. But family and relatives have vehemently denied this claim. The younger daughter was a 'student' studying in class 10 in a school in a nearby town. His father is a daily wage laborer earning Rs 250 per day. "She wanted to study a lot, I promised her that I would get her through high school," he says. Her mother says that the elder daughter loved to sew Despite living in a small village, the sisters had few opportunities, but their family says they were both very talented and dreamers. The murdered 17-year-old girl had a knack for sewing clothes. His elder brother said that he used to take him to a nearby village where he learned sewing over a period of four months. He himself went to work first in Himachal Pradesh and then in Delhi, so on the festival of Holi in March, he brought a sewing machine for his sister. "My daughter made it for me," said her mother, showing off her pink blouse. A 15-year-old sister was interested in art. Her mother said as she flipped through the pages of her daughter's drawing book. There are few pictures of these sisters. Her family said they did not have a mobile phone but showed a passport size photograph of the 15-year-old sister of the deceased. The younger daughter loved drawing and painting.In the picture, she is standing in front of a white background with her hair in two braids and a faint smile on her face. "She was very enthusiastic," Her aunt said. She wanted to study and work. She wanted to open her own beauty parlour. "Now those dreams are lost forever,"his brother said. In India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, home to 20 million people, crimes against women have been going on for a long time. A large number of Gharba people live here and it is the poor lower caste women who are most at risk.
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