Deputy superintendent of police (Karjat division) Dheeraj Patil told TOI over the phone on Tuesday that the boy, Nitin Raju Aghe, was seen talking to the girl in a field by some people, including the girl's brother.
The group allegedly attacked Nitin with sticks and strangled him to death with a rope. They then hanged him from a tree, Patil said.
While the police initially registered a case of accidental death, investigations later revealed that Nitin had been killed, Patil said. The police then registered a case of murder and arrested two men — the girl's brother Sachin Golekar (21) and one Sheshrao Yeole (42). A minor boy was also detained.
The incident created a law-and-order problem and a large number of policemen were deployed in the village, Patil said. The villagers observed a bandh on Tuesday, demanding the arrest of all the suspects.
Patil denied the murder was a case of honour killing, saying the suspects had not plotted to kill Nitin. "It was a case of sudden provocation as the girl's brother and others got agitated on seeing Nitin and the girl in the field," he said.
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