Live-in couple found dead in Gurugram

GURUGRAM: The bodies of a live-in couple were found decomposing inside their rented apartment, which was locked from the inside, in Sushant Lok 1 on Monday, police said, adding they suspected the two had passed away at least 36 hours before being discovered.

Police said they found the man hanging and the woman lying on the bed in the same room. Sanjeev Balhara, assistant commissioner of police, said that they are probing if the man murdered the woman before he took his own life. “We haven’t recovered a suicide note from the spot. We are probing if anyone had spare keys to the apartment and are waiting for the autopsy report before drawing any conclusion,” he said.

said the couple, both aged 29 years, had been living in the apartment for the last 18 months. The man was a chef with a five-star hotel in Delhi’s RK Puram and the woman worked at a food chain outlet in Gurugram. Poonam Hooda, the station house officer of Sushant Lok police station, said that they received information from the man’s cousin around 11.30am that he was not answering the doorbell and there was a foul smell emanating from the apartment. “A team from the Sushant Lok police station reached the spot, broke open the door and found both the bodies in the bedroom. Prima facia it appeared that man had either strangled the woman or poisoned her, and then taken his own life,” she said. Police said the man had separated from his wife and had a daughter, both of whom lived in Delhi. They added that according to his cousin, he was not on talking terms with his family. The woman’s family was also against their relationship, due to which she had left home, police said. Balhara said the man’s cousin told the police he came to check on the couple on Monday after the man’s colleagues informed him that he had not been responding to calls.

GUWAHATI: At least 10 people have died in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh in flood-related incidents in three days as torrential rains continued to lash parts of the northeast on Monday, officials from the two states said.

According to an Assam state disaster management authority report released on Monday, two deaths were reported in Cachar district, taking the toll in the state since Friday to five.

Since Sunday, five people have been killed and six injured in two separate landslides in Arunachal Pradesh, a state government release said.

According to the IMD, five states in the region witnessed excess rainfall than normal during May 1 to 16.