Farrukhabad Dalit Girls Die By Suicide After Being Cheated On By Boyfriends, Two Youths Booked

Farrukhabad Girls Death: The police said that two boys who have been arrested in the case were believed to have been in a romantic relationship with the deceased girls.

Farrukhabad Deaths: Fresh details have surfaced in the case pertaining to the deaths of two Dalit girls in Uttar Pradesh's Farrukhabad, where police have arrested two boys in connection with the case.

The two boys who have been arrested were identified as Deepak and Pawan, who are believed to have been in a romantic relationship with the deceased girls. The bodies of two Dalit girls were found hanging in an orchard in Farrukhabad.

On Wednesday, police said that the post-mortem concluded they died of hanging and that it was a case of suicide, even as their family members suspected foul play. They stated that the findings of the postmortem align with their initial investigation into the case.

According to a News 18 report, police said that the girls discovered that both the boys were cheating on them with other girls, following which they took their own lives. The two arrested in the case will be taken to the court on Saturday.

Earlier, the police had said that the girls, aged 15 and 18, had left their homes on August 26 around 10 PM to visit a nearby temple on the occasion of Janmashtami but did not return, news agency PTI reported. On Tuesday, the families of the deceased demanded a CB-CID probe into the matter.

Both the officials met the family members and assured them of a swift investigation into the matter, after which the families agreed to proceed with the last rites of the deceased, they added. The bodies of the teenage girls were recovered outside a village in the Kayamganj police station area in Fatehgarh on Tuesday morning.

According to the police, the girls were close friends and lived in the same neighbourhood. The bodies were hanging with two 'dupattas' that were tied together, they said.

No External Injury Marks Found, Says Chief Medical Officer  

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Avnindra Singh said that the girls died due to hanging and no external injury marks were found.

"The postmortem was conducted by a panel of doctors. They (girls) died due to hanging. No external injury marks have been found on the bodies," the CMO said. "The doctor panel has sent slides of vaginal fluid to the laboratory to rule out the possibility of rape," the CMO further stated.