The body of a woman suspected to have died by suicide was found near the Loni Roundabout in Delhi on Friday. Her husband, too, reportedly died by suicide at their residence in Jawahar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh the same day.
The police were alerted about the woman’s death on Friday afternoon after a crowd spotted her body. A mobile phone was discovered in her pocket, which led to the deceased’s identification. The police said the deceased woman was Shivani, 30, wife of Vijay Pratap Chauhan.
According to the police, the couple was married for two years and had a one-year-old daughter. “They had marital issues since the beginning and would regularly have loud and violent fights,” said a police source. On Friday, the couple had a raucous fight which escalated into an exchange of blows, the police source added.
“The husband apparently called his sister-in-law and told her he couldn’t bear it any longer. He then asked her to take his wife away,” the police source further said. Meanwhile, the woman stormed out of the house and called her brother once she reached Saboli Fatak.
“The brother asked her to wait there for him… but she kept walking till Loni Gol Chakkar and died by suicide,” the source said.
The woman’s body was shifted to Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital for a post-mortem examination. Initial observations showed no other visible injuries on the deceased, said the police. The suicide spot was examined by a Forensic Science Laboratory team.
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