Overview
- Post-mortem findings confirmed ante-mortem head injuries, overturning initial suicide theories about the 20-year-old man and 18-year-old woman.
- Both bodies were found hanging in a sugarcane field with their knees touching the ground and nearby blood stains, raising questions over the circumstances of their deaths.
- Investigative teams from Kushinagar district police and Tamkuhiraj station are examining homicide and suicide angles in the ongoing probe.
- Officials have detained and questioned family members to assess possible honour-based motives linked to the couple’s inter-caste relationship.
- Local residents report longstanding hostility between the youths’ families, with village panchayat interventions failing to resolve tensions.