Saharanpur,

21 March (HS): A 26-year-old man and an underage girl who went missing in

Muzaffarnagar district two days ago reportedly committed suicide by taking

poison in a hotel room in Nanauta, police said on Saturday. Police have named

the deceased as Ajmal. The girl's father, who filed a complaint against Ajmal

in Budhana on grounds of kidnapping his daughter, said in the FIR that she was

14, despite Ajmal's family's assertion that she was 18. Police in

Saharanpur stated they are checking the deceased girl's age. According to

authorities, Ajmal and the girl were both from the same community and lived in

a hamlet inside the Budhana police station borders in Muzaffarnagar.

Nanauta

SHO Naveen Kumar stated that Ajmal had booked into 'Hotel Blue One' two days

earlier and was communicating with his cousin Rizwan via video call. During one

such call, he allegedly exhibited Rizwan a packet containing a toxic chemical

and indicated his intention to terminate his life, despite the latter's

repeated requests to desist. Rizwan quickly called the family, who arrived at

the hotel on Friday evening to find Ajmal and the girl comatose. The two were

transported to a small health facility in Rampur Maniharan, where they were

directed to a larger medical facility in Shamli. Both were pronounced dead by

medics at a private hospital in Shamli during wee hours, according to

authorities. They stated that more investigations are underway.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi