New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh Police held two people ‒ a 28-year-old and a minor ‒ in connection with the deaths of two teenage girls in a village in Unnao district, accusing them of planning the murder. The police said that Vinay, the 28-year-old, confessed to mixing insecticide in water to target the eldgest girl, who was 17 years old, because she spurned his advances.The three Dalit girls were found in their family’s field. While the 13-year-old and 16-year-old girls were found dead, the eldest girl is in hospital, battling for her life.“Vinay Kumar, alias Lambu, and a teenager have been held in connection with the case. The matter is a fallout of a one-side love affair. The accused gave some pesticide with water to the three girls,” Lucknow Range inspector general (IG) Laxmi Singh said, according to news agency PTI.Both the accused are residents of Pathakpur village, which is close to the Babuhara village of Ashoha area where the girls resided.During the interrogation, Vinay told police that he was involved in agriculture and owned a piece of land at Baburaha village, near the spot where the girls were found on Wednesday night.According to police, Vinay told them that the girls used to go to the fields for fodder and they became friends during the coronavirus lockdown. He developed feeling towards the 17-year-old girl, but she spurned his advances.According to the Indian Express, Singh said, “The girl spurned him, which made him angry. He pressured her initially, thinking repeated proposals will get him a yes. He committed the crime in anger and used an insecticide kept at his farm, mixing it in water.”Quoting Vinay’s confession, Singh said, “On Wednesday, I mixed pesticide in a water bottle and asked my friend to bring snacks. The three had it and when they asked for water, I gave them the water bottle in which pesticide was mixed and they drank it. I had left their bodies in the field.”Apart from Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), police have slapped Section 201 against the accused for disappearing evidence. According to reports, the accused also belong to a Scheduled Caste.IG Singh said that there is no evidence as of not to suspect the involvement of any other persons. During questioning, neither Vinay nor the minor boy named anyone else, he said.The police have recovered some packets of snacks, a cigarette butt and a bottle of water from the crime scene. According to the Indian Express, Vinay’s mobile phone was found to be active nearby at the time of the incident.Meanwhile, a government spokesperson said on Friday that people who had alleged on social media that the girls were raped will face action. “The government has ordered an inquiry and those who made unverified claims about the girls being raped will face action,” the spokesperson said.Earlier in the day, the last rites of the two younger teenage girls were performed amid tight security arrangements, officials said. The girls were buried in their agriculture fields in the presence of senior officials and police personnel.The bodies were brought to their village after a post-mortem was done on Thursday, which did not show any external or internal injuries. Doctors suspected that the girls were poisoned.