ALLAHABAD: Bodies of two girls aged between 15 and 17 years were recovered from Sai river near Ghursainath Dham under the limits of Sangipur police station in
Pratapgarh district on Tuesday.
Pratapgarh SP Abhishek Singh said that deceased girls have been identified as Anjali and Shivani, residents of Sangipur.
Singh said that both the girls were sisters and had left their school during lunch time on Monday informing their teachers that they had to head home for some urgent work.
After leaving the school, they called up their aunt informing her that they were at Belhadevi temple and asked her to arrange a pick-up for them.
Their family immediately contacted police station concerned and the police found could not locate them at Belhadevi.
The girls, as per the police, reached a mobile shop in Lalganj area and asked the owner of the shop to call up their father so that they could pick them from here.
Suresh, the owner of the shop, called up girls' father and told him that both of his daughters are at his shop.
In the meantime, the shop owner left the shop asking his mother to take care of the girls. However, they did not stayed there for long and left the shop before their father could reach there. On Tuesday, the bodies of the girls were found floating in the river.
SP Singh said that cloths of both the girls were intact that proved that this wasn't a case of sexual assault.
However, both of them had tied one of their hands each other with a cloth. The police suspect it a case of drowning and claimed that postmortem report would clear the picture.