Couple found dead in guest house after 20-day stay. Then a kidnapping case twist

Amit Kumar, 22, and Nargis alias Pooja, 19, were found dead in a Lucknow guest house room after staying there for nearly 20 days.

In Short

• Victims identified as Amit Kumar, 22, and Nargis, 19
• Couple stayed 20 days in room 101, married per Arya Samaj certificate
• Police investigating suicide note and circumstances of deaths

A young man and woman were found dead after hanging themselves inside a guest house room in Lucknow on Wednesday.

Police identified the man as 22-year-old Amit Kumar and the woman as 19-year-old Nargis. The couple had been staying at the Red Building Guest House in Lucknow’s Chinhat police station area for nearly 20 days.

According to police, guest house operator Rakesh Yadav informed them over the phone that a young man and woman staying in room number 101 had hanged themselves. A police team immediately reached the guest house.

Police said the couple used a dupatta to hang themselves from the hook of the ceiling fan. Police brought both bodies down, completed the inquest proceedings and sent the bodies to Lohia Hospital for post-mortem examination.

Guest house records showed that Amit and Nargis had been staying in room number 101 since August 23.

When police contacted the families in Hardoi, they learnt that Harpalpur police station had registered a kidnapping case against the woman. The families had not received any information about the two since then.

Police also recovered a certificate from an Arya Samaj temple from the room. The certificate stated that Amit and Nargis had married. It named the woman as Nargis alias Pooja.

A suicide note was also recovered from the room. Police have started investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths and why the couple took the extreme step.

Police official Diksha Sharma said police received information on the night of September 9 that a young man and woman had died by suicide at a guest house in the Chinhat police station area. Police immediately reached the spot and brought the bodies down before taking them to the hospital, where doctors declared them dead.

Sharma said the Forensic Science Laboratory team collected all the evidence from the scene. Police also recovered the marriage certificate and suicide note from the spot.

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With inputs from Ankit Mishra