Dalits have lodged violent protest in Nagpur and some other places over the dalit massacre in Khairlanji village. They were demanding to quick inquiry and immediate arresting of culprits of the massacre.

However, the protest has suffered a setback when the police claimed on Tuesday that there was no evidence of rape found on two women killed. Four members of a dalit family including two women were killed in Khairlanji last month. The reports of brutal rape had been also featured in various news papers in Maharashtra.

Pankaj Gupta, Inspector General of Police, Maharashtra, said in a statement,

there were no evidence found to prove criminal assault on two women, Surekha and her daughter Priyanka Bhotmange. Nothing was found in the postmortems conducted on their bodies. There is not true that both the mother and daughter had been paraded naked in the village before killing.

He said further that

the medical officer had conducted postmortem immediately after recovery of the bodies near a canal. He did it in the absence of a lady doctor that is mandatory, the vaginal swab was not collected and he did not allow videographing the body.

The medical officer, who conducted it without necessary procedure, will face action against him.

Bhaiyalal Bhotmange, the head of the family and lone survivor, had asked for the second autopsy. Then the bodies were exhumed by the administration and the second postmortem conducted as per the proper procedure.

Pankaj Gupta, also claimed that,

no evidence was found either in first autopsy or in the second autopsy. Police has been arrested 44 people and have been sent to judicial custody. The head constable Baban Meshram and an PSO S S Bhabar were also arrested under Prevention of Atrocities Act in connection with the dalit killings.

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