Runaway Delhi couple found dead in Haryana canal

CHANDIGARH: Bodies of a runaway couple, missing from Najafgarh in Delhi since Thursday, were found in a branch canal of the River Yamuna flowing near Bahadurgarh.
The couple, identified as Arvind Sharma, a village priest, and Rinki, a married woman living near his temple in Najafgarh. Their bodies were identified their relatives who were accompanying the Najafgarh police.
The deaths, according to the cops, are likely to have been caused by suicide and could be linked to their extramarital affair.
Arvind, according to the police, had left home at 10.30am on Thursday and Rinki had left for work at 12.30 pm and both of them had gone to the NCR canal, on the border of Haryana and Delhi.
The couple was first spotted on Thursday sitting under a tree by labourers working on another canal near the NCR canal.
The next day on Friday, these labourers spotted mobile phones ringing near a motorcycle. The shoes of the were also kept nearby. They answered the phone and informed the callers as well as the police.
“Their family members reached the spot and Arvind’s relatives identified the motorcycle and his mobile phone. There was a spot on the bank where we found footsteps on the algae. This suggests that they might have gone into the canal,” Parveen Yadav, the investigating officer of the case, said.
“Arvind’s body came to surface on Friday afternoon and Rinki’s body later during evening hours,” he added.
The police handed over the two bodies after their post-mortem to their families — Arvind’s body was handed over on Friday and Rinki’s body on Saturday. Their relatives had refused to pursue the incident, he added.