Sajan Pariyal committed suicide after he was refused for almost six months a building occupancy certificate for the Rs 15 crore convention centre he had constructed.
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.