Police have recovered bodies of two Dalit sisters with eye injuries in a pond in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Fatehpur district, with their families alleging that they were killed after an unsuccessful rape bid.
The bodies of the girls, aged 8 and 12, were retrieved from the pond late on Monday evening, ASP Rajesh Kumar told news agency PTI.
He added that both the bodies had injury marks on the eyes.
The girls had gone to the field in the afternoon to get vegetables but did not return, the police said. The family members of the minors have alleged that the assailants killed the girls after an unsuccessful attempt to rape them, the officer said.
The bodies have been sent for portmortem and the report is awaited.
In a different case from Uttar Pradesh, a six-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped and murdered and her heart and lungs were taken out for black magic.
The lungs were removed to perform black magic, believing that it will help a woman give birth to a child, police told news agency PTI.
The girl had gone missing on the night of Diwali from the Ghatampur area. The killers -- Ankul Kuril (20) and Beeran (31) -- who were arrested on Sunday, had removed her lungs and delivered those to key conspirator Parshuram Kuril to perform black magic, ASP (Rural) Brajesh Srivastava said.