Three Dalit girls found dead in UP

Deoria (UP): Three Dalit girls, two of them minors, who have been missing since yesterday, were on Saturday found dead with head injuries in Barhaj area here, a senior officer said.

"Bodies of Priti (9), Pinky (13) and Indu (18), who were missing since yesterday, were found with serious head injuries near Katiyari village," Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar said.

He said that rape could not be ruled out, but anything concrete could be said only after receiving the post mortem report.

Kumar said that post mortem would be conducted by a panel of doctors and a team of forensic experts was reaching here from Lucknow.