Three girls found unconscious in a field in UP's Unnao; two die

LUCKNOW: Three girls aged 13, 16 and 17 were found in their field in an unconscious state in Baburaha village of Asoha police station in Unnao district on Wednesday evening. Police said that two of them were declared brought dead at the district hospital while the one aged 17 is battling for life at a Kanpur hospital. The incident surfaced after the brother of the 16-year-old girl went out to the fields to look for his sister around 7 pm.Police suspect it to be a case of poisoning.
“I spotted my sister along with my two other cousins with their hands and legs tied. My sister had gone to bring fodder for the cattle around 2 pm,” said the brother of the 16-year-old girl in his statement to the police.
SP, Unnao, Anand Kulkarni, told TOI that the three girls are cousins. “A white substance was oozing out of their mouths, and was visible, when the police teams reached there,” he said. However, police team that reached the spot first said the bodies were not found to be tied while hands and the legs also bore no impression of it.
No injury marks found on body of any girl: Cops
Kulkarni said that the three were taken to district hospital where the girls aged 13 and 16 were declared brought dead and the one aged 17 was shifted to Kanpur district hospital for further treatment.
Inspector General of Police, Lucknow range, Laxmi Singh, who also rushed to the spot and was supervising the probe, told TOI that the clothes of all the three girls were intact and there was no injury found on the body.
“We are probing from all angles while statements of the relatives and family members are being taken separately. We are trying to first concretise the entire sequence of the events and also hunt for evidence,” she added.
Sources also said that one of the brothers of the deceased girl who works in Lucknow and commutes daily from Unnao to Lucknow when questioned was unaware of the incident.