Overview

• The girls were identified as Dhanya Bai and Chaitra Bai, both 13 and Class 7 students from Yalachepalli in Mulbagal, Kolar district.
• They went missing on Thursday while playing outside, and villagers found their bodies in a well about two kilometres from town on Saturday morning.
• Police say a note recovered from one girl stated she was ending her life and asked her family to live happily.
• A senior officer said the post-mortem reported no external injuries and no signs of sexual assault or homicide.
• Mulbagal Rural Police registered an unnatural-death case, opened an inquiry that includes witness questioning and scene reconstruction, and say preliminary findings indicate drowning after an apparent decision to end their lives.