Jaipur, Oct 7 (PTI) Two minor girls allegedly killed themselves after being molested by four schoolmates in Rajasthan's Pratapgarh district, police said Saturday.

The Class 12 students were cousins, they said.

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The alleged incident took place in the Ghantali area. The girls, aged around 16, were students of a government school, Ghantali SHO Sohan Lal said.

On Wednesday, the father of one of the girls lodged a complaint against four boys, accusing them of molestation and intimidation. The police on Saturday added rape charges against the accused, he added.

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Three of the accused, including a minor, were detained soon after the girls' suicide, the officer said.

The bodies of the girls, who died after consuming poison, have been sent to the district hospital for post-mortem, the police said.

After the incident came to light, BJP's Rajasthan unit chief and Chittorgarh MP CP Joshi blasted the state's Congress government as "weak, ineffective".

In a post in Hindi on X, he said, "See the result of the courage of criminals under the rule of a weak, ineffective, useless and corrupt Congress government. In Pipalkhunt, Pratapgarh, two girl students studying in Class 12 commit suicide due to harassment and molestation."

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