Party office of Jaya’s niece Deepa stoned in Chennai

Unidentified persons on Tuesday pelted stones at the party office of J Deepa, niece of late chief minister J Jayalalithaa, police said. Deepa told reporters that the incident took place around 12.30am when a group of people pelted stones at the office of her MGR Amma Deepa Peravai at T Nagar here. Some window panes were damaged in the incident and police later inspected the spot. She expressed suspicion that some acquaintances could be behind the incident.

The bodies of two teenage girls were found hanging from a tree in a shanty quarter in Barola village in Noida Sector 49 early on Tuesday.

The sisters, aged 18 and 13, were asleep according to their mother who checked at around 3am.

“However at 4.30 am, I checked again and realised that they were missing,” said the mother, thinking that they must have gone to attend nature’s call.

But after some time, she heard a hue and cry and people were yelling that the girls were found dead.

Neighbours bolted the house from outside, suspecting honour killing.

The girls’ family came out only after the police came and brought the bodies down from the tree.

Although police are, for now, treating the case as suicide, the victims’ mother accused a distant nephew, Ravi, of murdering her daughters.

“Prima facie, we are treating this as a suicide case. However, there are a few aspects in the case which suggests otherwise,” said AK Singh, superintendent of police (city), adding that they

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