Bengaluru: Bodies of Kerala couple missing since October 14 found

The identities were ascertained by documents and mobile phones found on the bodies.

“It seems to be a case related to family opposition to their relationship,” said a deputy SP in the Bengaluru Rural region. Both the victims were of different castes.

“The bodies were discovered in in the Chintan Madiwala area which is a few kilometres away from Electronic City, where they worked…” said police sources.

Police are pursuing the suicide angle on the basis of a phone call made by Srilakshmi to her uncle. She reportedly said that she was going away with Abhijith.

After the couple went missing on October 11, a cousin of Srilakshmi who is a police officer in Kerala, filed a complaint on October 14 stating that she had been abducted by Abhijith.