The 16-year-old girl is currently being treated for suspected poisoning at a Kanpur hospital, the police. She is on ventilator support.
Villagers dig a grave to bury the bodies of two minor Dalit girls, near Baburaha village, Unnao, on Friday. Pic/PTI
The last rites of two teenage girls, found dead in an agriculture field in Babuhara village of Asoha police station area, were performed in Unnao on Friday morning amid heavy police presence, officials said.
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Villagers found the three girls — aged 16, 15 and 14 — in a field on Wednesday night. They had gone to take fodder. The locals had rushed the teenagers, related to each other, to a hospital where two of them were declared brought dead. The 16-year-old girl is currently being treated for suspected poisoning at a Kanpur hospital, the police. She is on ventilator support.
Police on Thursday registered a case of murder in connection with their deaths even as a post-mortem revealed no injury marks, but the cause of death could not be ascertained. Unnao District Magistrate Ravindra Kumar refuted reports of any pressure being exerted on the family and said that the last rites were performed on Friday as per the wishes of the family.
The district officials had made elaborate arrangements with heavy deployment of cops and barricades being installed. The security covered about one kilometre on the four paths reaching the village with a magistrate-level official posted at every barricade to check people.
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