A 19-year-old girl was found hanging from a tree in a village in northern India, the third incident recorded in recent weeks in Uttar Pradesh state and according to her family she was raped. A post mortem is under way.

On Wednesday, a 44-year-old woman was found hanging from a tree in the Bahraich area.

Police said she had been threatened by locals for selling liquor in the area and her family alleged that she was gang raped. Her post mortem proved inconclusive.

Another woman reported that she was gang raped by four police officers in the police department of the same state.

She said that on Monday night she went to the police department to ask police release her husband. She was attacked and raped by four police officers because she refused to bride them. The officers are now prosecuted for rape.

Last month’s gang rape and death of two teenage in Badaun have caused again a country outcry over sexual violence.

India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that protecting women should be a priority.

The social awareness on sexual violence in India has grown since the gang-rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus in 2012 following widespread protests and the government tightened laws on sexual violence last year.