UP: Two teen girls buried in Unnao village under heavy security blanket

The last rites of two teenage girls found dead in an agriculture field in Babuhara village of Asoha police station area were performed here on Friday morning amid tight security arrangements officials saidThree girls aged 16 15 and 14 were found in a field by the villagers on Wednesday night when they did not return after leaving their house to take fodder for cattleThe local residents had rushed the teenagers who are all related to each other to a hospital where two of them were declared brought dead The 16yearold girl was rushed to a district hospital and later referred to a Kanpur healthcare facility where she is presently undergoing treatment police saidOn Friday morning the bodies of Komal 15 and Kajal 14 were buried in their agriculture fields in the presence of senior officials and police personnel in large numbersThe bodies were brought to their village after a postmortem was done on Thursday but the last rites could not be performed on the day police saidWith regard to performing the last rites Unnao District Magistrate Ravindra Kumar said talks were held on Thursday with the deceased girls family who were not willing to take it up immediately as they were waiting for their son to arrive from another city and had also cited that the funeral can not be done as it was already sunsetThe DM 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 familyWhen asked if the family has made any demand the DM said no letter has been given by the family to the administration and state governmentHowever some outsiders present in the village on Thursday were making the family members write a letter stating their demands and the administration had come to know about itOur officials including the ADM were present on the spot but the family has so far not given any demand letter to us Kumar addedThe DM claimed that despite the presence of some outsiders there was peace in the villageThe district unit president of BJP Raj Kishore Rawat and local MLA Anil Singh were present during the funeral on FridayThe district officials had made elaborate arrangements with heavy deployment of security personnel and barricades being installed The security covered about one kilometre on the four paths reaching the village with a magistratelevel official posted at every barricade to check people Personnel from six police stations were also deployed for coverDirector General of Police Hitesh Chandra Awasthi had said on Thursday The postmortem of the two girls was done by a panel of doctors and no injury before death or external injuries were found on their bodiesThe cause of death could not be ascertained and viscera has been preserved for chemical analysisWe are taking help of forensic experts and looking into all possibilities the DGP had saidA medical bulletin by the Kanpur hospital treating the third girl had noted that it was a suspected case of poisoningApart from Section 302 murder the FIR also lists Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code related to causing disappearance of evidence The case mentioning the two sections was lodged on the basis of the familys complaint the police had statedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever