![]() In the ensuing months, the investigation into their deaths would implode everything that their small community held to be true, and instigate a national conversation about sex and violence. Who they were, and what had happened to them, was already less important than what their disappearance meant to the people left behind. Then one night in the summer of 2014 the girls went missing and hours later they were found hanging in the orchard. ![]() It was out in the fields, in the middle of mango season, that the rumors started. ![]() They grew up in Katra Sadatganj, an eye-blink of a village in western Uttar Pradesh crammed into less than one square mile of land. Fourteen-year-old Lalli was an incorrigible romantic. Sixteen-year-old Padma sparked and burned. ![]() "The girls' names were Padma and Lalli, but they were so inseparable that people in the village called them Padma Lalli. ![]()
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