The body of a 19-year-old youth, who was named in the FIR as the alleged abductor in the rape and murder case of a 15-year-old dalit girl from a village in Kurukshetra district, was found on Tuesday night in a canal near Jyotisar.
Haryana Police has been left baffled after recovering the body of the youth, who was until now the prime suspect in the rape and murder case.
The body was found on Tuesday night from the Bhakhra Canal near Jyotisar in Kurukshetra, said Police. Police said, the body of the class XII student was found in a decomposed condition and was identified by his parents from a tattoo on his arm.
Police had earlier launched a hunt to nab the accused who is alleged to have abducted the girl from Kurukshetra when she went to attend a tuition class.
The youth had been named as the alleged abductor in a complaint lodged by the girl's family after the teenager had gone missing last week from her village in Kurukshetra after leaving home to attend a tuition class.
Meanwhile, the family members of the deceased youth on Wednesday started a protest outside the office of the Kurukshetra Superintendent of Police Abhishek Garg demanding justice. Garg confirmed the recovery of body and said that police is investigating the murders.
Though there were no visible injury marks, the postmortem will reveal the exact cause of his death, said Garg.
The police is also not ruling out "honour killing" as a reason behind the twin murders. On the allegations leveled by the girl's family that local police did not immediately act upon the complaint lodged with them when the girl had gone missing, the Kurukshetra SP said the SHO concerned had been placed under suspension.
The girl had gone for her tuition class on January 9 and went missing. Her half-naked body was found near a canal in Jind district on Saturday.
Police and forensic officials had said the girl was brutally raped and inflicted wounds on her private parts and internal organs.