NEW DELHI — Angry villagers in western India threatened yesterday to resume a highway blockade unless police show progress in the search for suspects in the rape and killing of three young sisters.
The little girls’ bodies were found on Feb. 16 in a village well in Bhandara, Maharashtra, after they had gone missing from school two days earlier.
The mother of the girls, 6, 9 and 10 years old, said police did not initially take the case seriously and did nothing until villagers held protests last week, including blocking the highway.
Ten teams of 30 investigators were working on the case, Police Officer Abhinav Deshmukh said Friday.
Some men were being questioned, but no arrests have been made, a senior police official said.
Hundreds of people protested in Bhandara yesterday, demanding greater safety for women.