Two more women have been found hanging from trees in India's Uttar Pradesh state, while another has alleged she was gang raped by four police officers.
Police are already investigating a spate of rapes and hangings in the troubled northern region.
Some people say that the raping and hanging of women in Uttar Pradesh is fairly common. Only since the brutal gang-rape and murder of two young teens last month has provoked more people to actually report them. This state and country needs a whole lot of prayer.
There was public outrage last month when two girls, aged 12 and 14, were gang-raped and lynched in their impoverished village.
The latest cases come as India's national women's rights body called for the state government to resign over the crisis.
A 19-year-old was found, like the two girls, hanging from a tree in a village in Moradabad district.
"The body was strung up using the girl's dupatta (long scarf)," senior police superintendent Ashutosh Kumar said.
"The FIR (first information report) was lodged by the girl's brother against unidentified persons. He has alleged the girl was murdered."
A 45-year-old woman was also found hanging from a tree on Wednesday, with her family claiming she had been raped and murdered.
Her husband said she was singled out for attack as she returned home in Bahraich district as punishment for trying to halt the sale of alcohol in her area.
"We have detained four of the five men accused and are interrogating them," said district superintendent Happy Guptan.
In Hamirpur, southwest Uttar Pradesh, the woman who alleged she was gang-raped by four officers at a police station said the attack occurred as she was trying to secure her husband's release.
"At 11.30pm when there was no one in the room the sub-inspector took me to his room and raped me inside the police station," the woman, who cannot be named, told the CNN-IBN channel.
The woman filed a complaint against the sub-inspector and three other officers, alleging she was attacked in Hamirpur district when she refused to pay them a bribe, police said.
"The procedure will be followed, the victim has filed a complaint and the guilty will be arrested soon," said Virendra Kumar Shekhar, a district police official.
The chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav, is under mounting political pressure to resign over his handling of law and order.
Mamata Sharma, head of the state-run National Commission for Women, called his government's failure to protect women "shameful".
"They (the government) not only fail in protecting their women but they don't even have the police in their control," Ms Sharma told NDTV.
India brought in tougher laws last year against sexual offenders after the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi in December 2012, an attack that drew international condemnation of India's treatment of women.
But the legislation designed to educate and sensitise police on rape cases has failed to stem the tide of violence.
Uttar Pradesh, with a population of some 200 million, has a history of communal clashes and violence. The state recorded 23,569 crimes against women in 2012, the third highest in the country, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.
Police are already investigating a spate of rapes and hangings in the troubled northern region.
Some people say that the raping and hanging of women in Uttar Pradesh is fairly common. Only since the brutal gang-rape and murder of two young teens last month has provoked more people to actually report them. This state and country needs a whole lot of prayer.
There was public outrage last month when two girls, aged 12 and 14, were gang-raped and lynched in their impoverished village.
The latest cases come as India's national women's rights body called for the state government to resign over the crisis.
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| The woman reports the alleged attack by police to an official in Hamirpur |
"The body was strung up using the girl's dupatta (long scarf)," senior police superintendent Ashutosh Kumar said.
"The FIR (first information report) was lodged by the girl's brother against unidentified persons. He has alleged the girl was murdered."
A 45-year-old woman was also found hanging from a tree on Wednesday, with her family claiming she had been raped and murdered.
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| Members of the BJP are hit by water cannon during a protest against rape |
"We have detained four of the five men accused and are interrogating them," said district superintendent Happy Guptan.
In Hamirpur, southwest Uttar Pradesh, the woman who alleged she was gang-raped by four officers at a police station said the attack occurred as she was trying to secure her husband's release.
"At 11.30pm when there was no one in the room the sub-inspector took me to his room and raped me inside the police station," the woman, who cannot be named, told the CNN-IBN channel.
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| Two young girls were found hanging from a mango tree in Katra village |
"The procedure will be followed, the victim has filed a complaint and the guilty will be arrested soon," said Virendra Kumar Shekhar, a district police official.
The chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav, is under mounting political pressure to resign over his handling of law and order.
Mamata Sharma, head of the state-run National Commission for Women, called his government's failure to protect women "shameful".
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| Protesters were barred from reaching chief minister Akhilesh Yadav's office |
India brought in tougher laws last year against sexual offenders after the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi in December 2012, an attack that drew international condemnation of India's treatment of women.
But the legislation designed to educate and sensitise police on rape cases has failed to stem the tide of violence.
Uttar Pradesh, with a population of some 200 million, has a history of communal clashes and violence. The state recorded 23,569 crimes against women in 2012, the third highest in the country, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.
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