Ranchi/Dumka, July 29: Two girls from Dumka were found dead in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand amid allegations from their parents that the Ranchi police didn’t do enough to look for them after they went missing from the capital last week.
It is, however, not clear whether Mausam Modi (17) and Nikita Kumari (18) — fast friends since childhood but separated by academics — committed suicide or were kidnapped and killed for ransom.
Mausam and Nikita went missing from Ranchi on July 20, a day after they had a secret rendezvous to celebrate Mausam’s birthday. Their bodies were found near Chila canal of Ganga barrage in the Laxmanjhula police station area of Pauri Garhwal, 30km from Hardwar, this afternoon after which Ranchi police were informed.
Ranchi SSP Saket Kumar Singh said the girls were identified on the basis of their school ID cards and other belongings. “I have sent a team from Kotwali police station where the missing diary was lodged, to Hardwar,” he added.
Originally residents of Tin Bazar in Dumka, both class XI girls stayed in hostels. While Mausam was a student of Delhi Public School in Ranchi, Nikita studied in Chinmaya School in Bokaro. Their fathers — Shravan Kumar Modi and Ashok Kumar Sah — are businessmen in Dumka.
According to family sources, Nikita had last spoken to her father over phone late on July 19 to tell him that she had come to Ranchi from Bokaro for Mausam’s birthday and Sah had reproved her.
The next day she sent a text message to her mother, saying she did not wish to live. Her mother lodged a missing diary with Kotwali police.
Yesterday, however, Nikita’s parents apparently received a Rs 1 crore ransom call after which they met chief minister Arjun Munda at in Barmasia, urging a police follow-up.
Sah and Modi left for Uttarakhand today, but refused to shed light on the ransom angle. “That question is irrelevant now that my daughter is dead,” he said.
Nikita’s mother Sangita Devi blamed the police for their casual approach. “We stayed for eight days in Ranchi and the local police kept assuring us that our daughters would be rescued, but did nothing concrete to bring them back,” she said.
Scotching allegations, SSP Singh expressed his inability to comment immediately. “Both suicide and murder angles are being probed. It will not be proper to make any statement right now,” he said.
Sources in the police, however, ruled out murder. “Both girls were together since July 19. A day or two later, they checked in at Virasat Residency in Hardwar and checked out from there at 11.30am on July 24. During their stay at the hotel, there was no third person with them. So, there is no question of kidnap. It also suggests that the girls wanted to be together and committed suicide because their parents were trying to separate them,” a policeman said, requesting anonymity.
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It is, however, not clear whether Mausam Modi (17) and Nikita Kumari (18) — fast friends since childhood but separated by academics — committed suicide or were kidnapped and killed for ransom.
Mausam and Nikita went missing from Ranchi on July 20, a day after they had a secret rendezvous to celebrate Mausam’s birthday. Their bodies were found near Chila canal of Ganga barrage in the Laxmanjhula police station area of Pauri Garhwal, 30km from Hardwar, this afternoon after which Ranchi police were informed.
Ranchi SSP Saket Kumar Singh said the girls were identified on the basis of their school ID cards and other belongings. “I have sent a team from Kotwali police station where the missing diary was lodged, to Hardwar,” he added.
Originally residents of Tin Bazar in Dumka, both class XI girls stayed in hostels. While Mausam was a student of Delhi Public School in Ranchi, Nikita studied in Chinmaya School in Bokaro. Their fathers — Shravan Kumar Modi and Ashok Kumar Sah — are businessmen in Dumka.
According to family sources, Nikita had last spoken to her father over phone late on July 19 to tell him that she had come to Ranchi from Bokaro for Mausam’s birthday and Sah had reproved her.
The next day she sent a text message to her mother, saying she did not wish to live. Her mother lodged a missing diary with Kotwali police.
Yesterday, however, Nikita’s parents apparently received a Rs 1 crore ransom call after which they met chief minister Arjun Munda at in Barmasia, urging a police follow-up.
Sah and Modi left for Uttarakhand today, but refused to shed light on the ransom angle. “That question is irrelevant now that my daughter is dead,” he said.
Nikita’s mother Sangita Devi blamed the police for their casual approach. “We stayed for eight days in Ranchi and the local police kept assuring us that our daughters would be rescued, but did nothing concrete to bring them back,” she said.
Scotching allegations, SSP Singh expressed his inability to comment immediately. “Both suicide and murder angles are being probed. It will not be proper to make any statement right now,” he said.
Sources in the police, however, ruled out murder. “Both girls were together since July 19. A day or two later, they checked in at Virasat Residency in Hardwar and checked out from there at 11.30am on July 24. During their stay at the hotel, there was no third person with them. So, there is no question of kidnap. It also suggests that the girls wanted to be together and committed suicide because their parents were trying to separate them,” a policeman said, requesting anonymity.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110730/jsp/frontpage/story_14308735.jsp
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