A 17-year-old boy of a locality under Falakata police station of Alipurduar district, accused of morphing the picture of a girl and creating her fake profile on social media, was found dead near the village on Saturday.

On Friday, the girl’s kin had reprimanded the boy and forced him to delete the fake profile. On Saturday, some people spotted him dead at a deserted place near the village. A rope around his neck was tied to a tree but his body was lying on the ground. The boy’s family have accused the girl’s family of murder.

Police started an investigation and arrested the the girl’s father.

Sources said the boy, who passed his higher secondary exams this year, was running the girl’s fake profile for a while.

“We are waiting for post mortem reports to know the cause of his death. Probe is on,” said Kuntal Banerjee, the additional superintendent of police of Jaigaon.