Overview
- Neighbors in Tugalpur village called the 112 helpline about a foul smell Wednesday evening, and officers forced entry to a locked third-floor room where they found the man hanging and the woman dead.
- Sarvesh Singh of the Knowledge Park police said a scarf was tied around the woman’s neck and that evidence points to the man strangling her before dying by suicide.
- Investigators completed the man’s post-mortem on Thursday in the presence of his family, while the woman’s body remains at the mortuary as police work to reach her relatives.
- Officers said the pair lived in a rented room after moving from Deoria, and although he introduced her to the landlord as his wife, police described it as a live-in relationship that families say they did not know about.
- Police have not registered a case and have yet to establish the man’s employment, and they said the woman left a housekeeping job at a private Greater Noida hospital on March 6, leaving motive and next steps unclear.