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The postmortem report of the two teenage girls, who were found hanging from a tree in Uttar Pradesh's Farrukhabad, has revealed that they died due to asphyxiation (suffocation). Police said that the entire case is of double suicide and that no injury marks were found on either of the girls' bodies. They will now investigate what led the girls to die by suicide.
The autopsy report came even as the families of the teenagers, aged 18 and 15 and belonging to the Schedule Caste, alleged the case to be of murder.
The girls, who were close friends, were found hanging from the same dupatta from the same tree in a mango orchard. Superintendent of Police, Alok Priyadarshi, said that their necks were "tied at each of the dupatta which went across the tree".
Both the girls had gone out to watch the Janmashthami programme with their families late on Monday night, and the orchard where their bodies were found was 150 metres away from the venue. The mobile phone of the cousin of one of the girls was recovered from the scene along with a SIM card from the clothes of one of the victims. According to the police, the cousin watched the Janmashtami programme with the families of the girls.
The recovered items have been sent for further investigation into the matter.
The father of one of the girls has alleged that both the teenagers were murdered.
"My daughter and her friend, who lives in the neighbourhood, had gone to see the (Janmashthami) programme. When they did not return till late night, we thought she (his daughter) must have stayed back at her aunt's house, who lives in the same village. In the morning (Tuesday), we got the information that two girls had hanged themselves. When we went to the spot, my daughter and her friend were hanging from the same dupatta from the treet. We feel that they have been murdered," the father told media.
