MEERUT: Bodies of a 38-year-old woman and a 23-year-old youth with bullet injury in the chest and head, respectively, were recovered from Bhawanpur area in Meerut on Saturday morning.
In what initially looked liked a double murder turned out to be a murder-cum-suicide during police investigation.
According to the police, a suicide note was also recovered from the youth, a B-Pharma graduate who was allegedly in an illicit relationship with the woman - married and mother of a 14-year-old boy. The duo lived in the same locality.
During investigation, police claimed to have recovered a suicide note from the youth's trouser pocket and a voice note from his mobile was sent to his brother on WhatsApp alerting him about the extreme step he was taking.
Elaborating, Meerut SP (Rural) Keshav Kumar said, "The YouTube and browser search history on the youth's phone showed that he was looking online for information on death by Sulphas poisoning."
Interestingly, the pistol used by him in killing his paramour and later ending his life was recovered from his father who, according to police, had panicked and removed it from the crime scene.
Though, prima facie, police claimed bullet injury was most likely the cause of death, it is yet to be ascertained through the findings of the postmortem report.