Kanpur: The bodies of a married woman and her alleged paramour were found hanging from a tree in Hasemau village under the limits of Bhognipur Kotwali police station of Kanpur Dehat district on Wednesday morning.
The police said that the bodies of 22-year-old Aarti and her 25-year-old alleged paramour Shyam Lal have been sent for post-mortem examination and the matter is being investigated from all angles.
The police said Aarti, a resident of Asewa village, was married to one Chetan Singh of Mohammadpur village in Kuthaund police area of Jalaun, while her alleged paramour Shyam Lal was a native of Gubar village under Rajpur police station of the district (Kanpur Dehat).
Police were trying to ascertain the reasons that prompted the two to resort to extreme step.
However, preliminary investigations revealed that Aarti was in a relationship with Shyam Lal prior to her marriage and wanted to marry him, but her family members got her married to Chetan Singh in June 2020.
“The two probably entered into a suicide pact and later hanged themselves to death,” the police said.
Inspector Bhognipur Dharmendra Singh said, “Aarti had gone missing from her parent’s house on Tuesday evening. Similarly, Shyam, who had left his Gubar village home on Tuesday morning telling his parents that he was going to Sikandara, remained untraceable till late night. The two thereafter had reached Hasemau village where they apparently hanged themselves to death from a mango tree using a single rope.”
He added, “As of now, no FIR has not been registered so far as no complaint has been filed.”