A video of a group of people apprehending a young man in Roorkee, claiming that he murdered a girl and put her dead body in a suitcase, has gone viral. The video was shared as an incident of ‘love jihad’. Alt News spoke to police officials in Roorkee. The duo was from the same community and had been in a relationship for many years. The duo had undertaken a suicide pact owing to familial opposition to the union. After the girl died from poisoning, the boy intended to dump her body and kill himself.

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