Indian Girls' Gang Rape, Murder Draws Outrage

Two teenage girls were gang raped and left hanging dead in a mango tree in India this week.

Protesters are taking to the streets of New Delhi, demanding justice for the murdered girls who were Dalits. Also called "untouchables," Dalits are widely disregarded in India and considered the lowest rung in India's age-old caste system.

The father of one girl went to police the night they didn't come home to report them missing, but he said they refused to help. Two officers were fired on Friday for ignoring the his plea for help.

Although arrests have been made, protesters say there is a lack of anger for killings.

"They have been raped and exhibited, shown to everybody," Chintu, a protester, said. "It shows that it's done to re-enforce the caste structure. The lowest in the hierarchy have been targeted so that they don't speak up, so that they are afraid and hence the upper caste dominance can be maintained in society."

When the bodies of the two girls were found, angry villagers silently protested the police inaction by refusing to allow the bodies to be cut down from the tree.

The villagers only allowed authorities to take down the corpses after the first arrests were made Wednesday.

In 2013, new laws were enacted to try and cut down on the problem. Gang rape is now punishable by the death penalty, even when the victim survives.

Last month, the head of the governing party in Uttar Pradesh, the country's most populous state, told an election rally that the party was opposed to the law.

"Boys will be boys. They make mistakes," Mulayam Singh Yadav, the father of the Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, said.