According to police, a 19-year-old woman and her 50-year-old mother were stabbed to death on Sunday night in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra district by a man who allegedly wanted to marry the girl. They also said that a third woman, a relative, was seriously injured and was taken to a local hospital.

The accused, who is on the lam, is a family neighbor. According to police, he was a classmate of the 19-year-old and vowed to marry her.

Both families were unhappy with their “companionship,” as per locals, and had a confrontation about it a few days earlier. They also said that the girl’s family had gotten her engaged elsewhere about two weeks earlier.

“The inquiry has also shown that the crime was committed by a man named Govind, who lives about 50 meters away from the incident site. This man was in love with a family member, and the murders were committed because of this. We’ve also located eyewitnesses; five police teams have been formed and try to apprehend the defendants “In a video address on social media, Satish Ganesh, the Inspector General of Police for Agra, stated.