Uttar Pradesh: Missing since October 12, bodies of Unnao youth, girlfriend found

KANPUR: Panic prevailed on Tuesday when bodies of a missing 22-year-old youth and his 16-year-old alleged girlfriend, both natives of a village under the limits of Bangarmau Kotwali police station area in Unnao district, were exhumed from a paddy field in the outskirts of the village.
The bodies of the victims, identified as Balkishan and the alleged girlfriend, were recovered in a badly decomposed state.
As per police, the bodies were at least four to five days old, and they are trying to ascertain the exact identity of the victims through DNA profiling, and their exact time of death.
Going by the preliminary findings, the investigators said that it appears that the bodies of the couple were burnt by pouring acid.
Police also said they are probing all possible angles, including suicide, as cause of death.
Family members of both the victims identified them on the basis of mobile phones, slippers and clothes recovered from the spot.
The police are trying to procure the call details of both the mobiles and the location after the disappearance of the victims on October 12. Balkishan's father, Chetram, a native of Bhikariapur village under the limits of Bangarmau Kotwali police station of Unnao, said that he had lodged a complaint with the police after his son was severely beaten up by the father and brother of a teenage girl of the dame village in the late evening hours of October 12.
“Somehow he escaped and rushed back to his home. After this, on the morning of October 13, while he was going to the fields, the family members of the teenage girl abducted him. Despite a frantic search, no trace of his son was found,” he had stated in his complaint further.He had also expressed apprehension that some untoward incident could happen to his son.
On the other hand, the father of the 16-year-old girl had given a complaint in the Kotwali police station accusing the youth of luring and eloping with his daughter on October 13.
“Investigations to ascertain the exact time of deaths of the couple are underway,” said CO, Ashutosh Kumar.