Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) women workers raise slogans and burn an effigy of Akhilesh Yadav, chief minister of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, during a protest against the gang rape of two teenage girls, in Allahabad, India, Saturday, May 31, 2014. Police arrested a third suspect and hunted for two others Saturday in the gang rape and slaying of two teenage cousins found hanging from a tree in Katra village, in Uttar Pradesh, a case that has prompted national outrage. (AP Photo/ Rajesh Kumar Singh)

LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- A top government official says a state in north India has fired two police officers who failed to respond to a complaint by the fathers of two teenage girls who went missing and were later found gang-raped and killed.

Anil Kumar Gupta said Friday the policemen had been charged with criminal conspiracy after they refused to file a complaint or take any action when the fathers reported that the girls had been abducted.

The teenage cousins were raped and killed Wednesday by attackers who then hung their bodies from a mango tree hours after they disappeared from fields near their home in Katra village in Uttar Pradesh.

Angry villagers held protests in the village, demanding action against the police and arrests. Four men have been arrested in the rapes.


Source: Associated Press