A convicted rapist on parole and his friend battered to death two young widows in Haryana’s Bhiwani district late Sunday night.
The police arrested Naresh Kumar, serving jail time for rape, and his friend Subhash after they attacked and killed Suman, 35, and Shakuntala, 40, in full view of
residents in Bhiwani’s Ranila village. Eyewitnesses said the two men began thrashing the women with wooden staffs and kept battering them until they fell dead.
In custody later, the two brazenly told the police they had killed the widows as they were of a “loose character ... and were indulging in prostitution.” Naresh is closely related to one of the victims.