In a suspected case of honour killing, the mutilated bodies of a teenaged couple, missing since last one week, were recovered from bushes in Mainpuri district on Wednesday.
The police sent the bodies for autopsy and are waiting for the report before taking action against the family members.
Reports said that Sanjay (name changed), a resident of Ganeshpura hamlet under Kotwali police station in Mainpuri, was having an affair with a 19-year-old girl residing in the same locality. The family members of the girl were against the love affair and had warned their daughter to leave Sanjay or they would marry her to some other boy.
When the girl refused to listen to her parents, they fixed her marriage with another youth and
fixed June 24 as the date of marriage. The engagement ceremony took place on June 17. The local residents said that last Wednesday, they came to know that the girl had disappeared. The family members accused Sanjay of abducting the girl.
However, Sanjay’s family said that their son was also missing and expressed suspicion that he could be killed by the girl’s family. The police had launched a search for the missing couple. The cops were shocked when someone informed them on Wednesday morning that two mutilated bodies were lying in the bushes in Ganeshpura. They rushed to the spot and found that someone had killed a girl and a boy and poured acid over the bodies to burn it. With the help of clothes, the identities of the victims were established as the missing lovers.
The police said that after receiving the post-mortem report, they would take the family members of he girl in custody and grill them to extract the truth.
In a separate case, the body of a 23-year-old man was found in a forest in Pratapgarh district on Wednesday.
Police said the body of Rahul Verma, a student, was found in a forest in Lalganj area of the district and prima facie it appeared that he was hacked to death.
The body was sent for post-mortem. Investigations are underway.