The father has alleged that a Muslim man Jaffer is responsible for Ashwini's suicide as he had forced her to convert and had also threatened her family.
Khatua was reported missing by his family members on January 18 last month. His body was found yesterday near a drain behind the ordinance factory in Jabalpur.
The accused Christian priest Father Prakash Damor had first met the minor victim at a missionary school where she was studying in Class 11 and had been allegedly pressurising her to marry him.
The local farmer union has claimed that many farmers are distressed in the state as their loans do not meet the terms and conditions set by the Congress government to obtain a waiver.