Rape and murder in Uttar Pradesh

[Forkboy]

For Sarika, 16, it was like any other day when she went out to the fields for her evening ablutions with her friend Chhaya.

It was a cold February evening and it was pitch dark. "I was feeling a little scared so I wanted to get back quickly," she tells me.

On the way back, she says, she was attacked by Shivam and three other men from the village.
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Sarika shows me her injuries - a fist-size wound on her scalp, her jaw which has been sewn together, her right hand which had to be re-attached, her right earlobe from where big chunks are missing, and long scars on her arms.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14058814

[Forkboy]

1. Kicking my own thread, just because I can.

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