On September 28, Delhi resident Deepak Gupta was enjoying his Sunday off as usual when he received a call around 4pm. It was his cousin Vinay Kumar Agrahari on the line. What Vinay told Deepak next was something he was not prepared for. Vinay’s brother Ajay Kumar and the latter’s wife Sweety Sharma, residents of Gurgaon, were dead. According to the police, Ajay, a software engineer, had allegedly strangled his wife to death before dying by suicide at their rented apartment at a housing complex in Sector 37D.

The bodies of Ajay, 33, and 28-year-old Sweety, also a tech professional, were discovered after a friend from Bengaluru alerted the authorities upon receiving a purported video message from the engineer confessing to his wife’s murder and his intention to end his own life, officers

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