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Couple found dead in hotel

Staff Reporter

Apparently a suicide pact, woman described herself as man's sister-in-law

NEW DELHI: In what appears to be a suicide pact, a 30-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man were found dead under highly mysterious circumstances in a hotel room at Shakarpur in East Delhi on Tuesday.

According to the police, the incident came to light in the afternoon when the staff of Hotel Green Palace on Vikas Marg realised that there was no response from the room in which the woman and the youngster had checked in on Monday. When they opened the door with the help of a duplicate key, they found the bodies of the duo lying on the bed. Subsequently, the police were informed. The police recovered some tablets of sulphas and two bottles of insecticides from the room. No suicide note was recovered from the spot.

The police said the duo had checked-in around 12-30 p.m. on Monday. They had mentioned their names as Poonam and Ranjit in the hotel register and had also mentioned a place in Navada (Bihar) as their address. The woman had told the hotel staff that she was the wife of Ranjit's elder brother and that she had come to Delhi to meet her husband. While the duo did not apparently go out of the hotel, they were last seen alive on Monday evening.

Meanwhile, the police are now trying to establish the veracity of the address furnished by the duo. They have contacted the Navada police in this connection. A case has been registered at the Shakarpur police station and efforts are on to ascertain the identity of the deceased.

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