The Triplicane police arrested a 22-year-old youth for murdering his girlfriend and remanded him in judicial custody.
On June 10, Kajal, 20, of Sowcarpet was found dead in a lodge in Triplicane and her boyfriend Sumer Singh, 22, was battling for life outside the room with injuries on his neck. Sumer was rushed to the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital .
Meanwhile, the police found that the girl had consumed cyanide and the post-mortem report suggested that she could have been strangulated.
After he was discharged from the hospital, the police grilled him with the post-mortem report. During interrogation, he told the police that they were in love but the girl’s parents who were against their relationship, tried to marry her off.
As her parents arranged an engagement with another person, she wanted both of them to end their lives, Sumer told the police.
He had ordered cyanide online, from a drug company in Mumbai. Though he was not happy with her decision, he pretended to consume cyanide along with her.
She drank the cyanide fully and then noticed that he had not.
Youth attacked
Sumer admitted to have strangulated her as she confronted him, the police said. Police suspect that he was attacked and injured by the girl before her death.
Those with suicidal tendency can contact the State’s health helpline 104 or Sneha’s suicide prevention helpline 044-24640050 for counselling.
