Today only, two minor girls of the age of 15 and 18 years were found hanging from a tree in Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh. The girls were found missing after they had gone missing after attending a Janmashtami program the previous night.
The family members said the teenagers had performed the Janmashtami at the neighboring temple on the day of the Altantuya’s murder in the evening. They went back at around 9 in the evening because of the rain but went back to the program, which was over at past 1 am.
Surprisingly, when the girls failed to come back home, the family members initiated looking for the girls. Another friend eventually went and told the family that two bodies were lying in a mango tree with a rope around the neck.
“Around 6 am, we reached here and found girls hanged. We believe someone murdered them and hanged their dead bodies,” said the father of one of them. Through fear, the girls’ naked bodies were hanged on the tree with two dupattas tied between them.
Local police chief Alok Priyadarshi said that both of those girls were friends for a long time. This, he said, will be revealed in the autopsy. Business persons should always know their surroundings and be vigilant. The police have retrieved a phone and a SIM card and are currently using them to collect information while speaking to the family members. The matter will be investigated in detail, and something will be done about it, he said.
The corpses have been taken for post-mortem, and the police forensic team has taken pictures of the scene.
The leader of the Samajwadi Party, the main opposition in Uttar Pradesh, has urged the state government to act fast and state that such occurrences tend to make society live in fear.
The state BJP government should immediately, without further delay, undertake a thorough probe into the suspected murder and clarify the issues involved as such an incident does create fear among the society, especially the women folk Yadav posted on X.
This ugly event has again brought to the fore the need for adequate and effective measures to protect women in the state.
