Two people including a minor on Friday, 19 February, were arrested for allegedly killing two girls by poisoning them in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao, a case which the police said is a “fallout of a one-sided love affair.”
The police said that the accused gave the girls pesticide to drink along with water, after one of them had rejected his proposal and his demand for her phone number.
The two girls were found dead under mysterious circumstances earlier this week. A third girl was found in a critical condition nearby. She is currently undergoing medical treatment at a hospital in Kanpur.
The two persons arrested in connection with the crime have been identified as Vinay alias ‘Lambu’ and one juvenile. Both accused are residents of Ashoha’s Pathakpur village and were held on a tip-off, IG Laxmi Singh said.
Vinay confessed that he became friends with one of the girls during the lockdown and they used to talk to each other in the fields. He confessed his love to her but she refused his advances.
“We used to play and eat together in the field. I had a one-sided love affair with her. When I proposed her, she rejected. When I asked her this month to give me her phone number, she did not give due to which I was angry and decided to kill her,” IG Singh told reporters quoting prime accused Vinay.
Vinay said he discussed the idea with his friend and on the day of the crime he mixed some disinfectant at home with water in a water bottle and both carried some namkeen along with the liquid to his farm where the three girls were already present, cutting grass. He made them eat the snack and then offered the poisoned water to them to drink. It has emerged that while he had only intended to kill Karishma, he could not refuse the other two sisters for the water when they asked for it.
“We then shifted the bodies to their own farm,” he said.
Apart from Section 302 (murder) of the IPC, police have slapped Section 201 against the accused for causing disappearance of evidence on a complaint of a victim’s father, police said