Overview
- Police discovered Vinod Prajapati (22) and his wife Laxmi (20) hanging from the same rope in a room of Hastinapur village and have taken the bodies into custody for post-mortem.
- Investigators reported smashed mobile phones, scattered items and an untouched plate of food at the scene and recovered no suicide note.
- A formal case has been registered and a forensic team examined the site before sending the broken phones to a laboratory while cyber experts try to recover call and chat data.
- Family members and neighbours say the couple, married in April 2025, had attended a wedding at the wife’s maternal home and got into a heated argument shortly before the deaths.
- Police say all conclusions are provisional and that forensic results and statements from both families will be key to determining whether the deaths were self-inflicted or the result of foul play.