By Scroll Staff
The bodies of two Dalit girls were found hanging from a tree near Bhagautipur village in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad district on Tuesday, the Deccan Herald reported. The girls were aged 15 and 18.
The father of one of the two girls alleged that both of them were murdered, according to Hindustan Time. However, the police said prima facie it appeared that the two girls died by suicide.
The bodies of the two girls were found in a mango orchard, Hindustan Times quoted Farrukhabad Superintendent of Police Alok Priyadarshi as saying. Both of them were close friends and neighbours, and belonged to the same community, he said.
“We received information this [Tuesday] morning from Bhagautipur village about two girls’ bodies hanging from a tree,” Priyadarshi said. “A police team was quickly dispatched to the scene,”
He added: “One body was found hanging from one end of a dupatta and the other body from the other end.”
According to Priyadarshi, the two girls went missing after they had gone to a temple in the village on the occasion of the Hindu festival of Janmashtami at around 9 pm on Monday.
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