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A 20-year-old youth and his 18-year-old beloved, belonging to different castes, were hanged to death by their parents in the presence of hundreds of residents at a village in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Tuesday.
District police chief B S Moriya said Vishal and Sonu were brought to the roof of a house and hanged one after the other at Alipur village on Monday night.
The girl's parents and the boy's elder brother and sister-in-law were witnesses to the hanging, he said.
Sonu and Vishal had been in love for some time and were asked by their families to stop meeting each other, Moriya said.
The entire village was also opposed to the affair, he added.
Relations between the two families soured because of the caste factor. Sonu was a Jat while Vishal was a Brahmin.
The police arrested the parents of the girl and the brother and sister-in-law of the boy on the charge of murder.
Moriya said firearm licences of the villagers had been suspended for remaining mute spectators to the cold-blooded murder.
PTI
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