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.