UP: Two girls commit suicide after family takes away mobile phones

Two girls, both cousins, aged 16 and 14 years, allegedly hanged themselves at their house in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh district, after their families took away their mobile phones.
The incident took place on Sunday afternoon in Fazalpur village under Barla police circle.
Both girls belong to families of farmers and were school dropouts, police said.
The families claimed that an unknown person with whom they were in touch on the phone, had allegedly incited them to kill themselves.
The families alerted the police after they found the bodies of the girls inside a locked room.
“Their bodies have been sent for post mortem. A case under section 306 IPC has been registered against unknown person based on the complaint filed by the victims’ families. Investigation is under way and action will be taken accordingly”, Rural Superintendent of Police, Palash Bansal said.