{{Indian investigators said Monday they would not charge five men detained earlier this year on suspicion of raping and murdering two teenage girls in a case that sparked global outrage.}}<\/p>\n
The cousins, aged 14 and 15, were found hanging from a tree in an impoverished village in northern Uttar Pradesh state in May.<\/p>\n
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India’s top investigative agency, said it would not “as yet” file charges against the men, citing a lack of evidence, but did not rule out future charges.<\/p>\n
The men are expected to be released on Friday after 90 days in detention, the maximum time that a person can be held without being charged in India.<\/p>\n
“Based on our investigations so far, we are not going to file the charge-sheet at this stage. However, no one has been given a clean chit as yet,” CBI spokesperson Kanchan Prasad told reporters.<\/p>\n
The girls were reported at the time to have been gang-raped and murdered after going into the fields to relieve themselves because their homes, like most in their village in Badaun district, lacked toilets.<\/p>\n
The attack sparked public outrage after the family complained of police apathy towards them because they came from a lower caste.<\/p>\n
Media reports say the CBI’s decision was based on forensic tests that had ruled out sexual assault in the case.<\/p>\n
India brought in tougher rape laws last year for crimes against women after the fatal gang-rape of a physiotherapy student on a bus in New Delhi in December 2012.<\/p>\n
– AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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