A software engineer allegedly strangled his wife to death before dying by suicide in their rented apartment at a housing complex in Gurgaon’s Sector 37D Sunday, the police said.

The bodies of Ajay Kumar, 33, and Sweety Sharma, 28, also a tech professional, were discovered after a friend from Bengaluru alerted the authorities upon receiving a video message from Kumar confessing to the murder and his intention to end his life, officers said.

Kumar was originally from Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh where his father works as an electrician. Sharma hailed from Asansol in West Bengal where her father runs a furniture business. The two had been in a relationship for several years before getting married in 2023.

The couple, who lived in Tower-7 of Millennia-1 society, were found in a room which w

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