Overview
- Officers forced open a locked room in SBI Colony near Tiranga Chowk late Wednesday after a resident reported a tenant was not responding and found the bodies of a 38-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman.
- Police identified the man as a Kerala native who worked at a private hospital in Saharanpur and the woman as a resident of the Gagalhedi area, but authorities have not released names.
- Investigators said the man was found partially hanging with wrist wounds and the woman was lying on the floor with no visible external injuries and an apparent ingestion of a poisonous substance.
- Forensic teams seized both victims’ mobile phones, collected evidence at the scene and sent the bodies for post-mortem and toxicology to establish timing, cause and sequence of deaths.
- Officials described the case as prima facie linked to a romantic relationship and are questioning locals while forensic and medico-legal results are awaited to confirm motive and manner of death.