Ggm techie kills wife, sends out confession video before suicide

A 33-year-old software engineer allegedly murdered his 33-year-old wife, also a techie at a multinational IT company, before dying by suicide inside their apartment in Gurugram’s Sector 37D, police said on Monday.

- Debashish Karmakar

The crime - expected to have taken place between 3pm and 3.30pm on Sunday in Tower-7 of the Millennial society - came to light hours later, when the husband sent a video to a WhatsApp group of his friends, confessing that he had killed his wife and intended to end his life.

One of the friends, a Bengaluru resident, alerted Gurugram Police after seeing the message, investigators privy to the case said.

Police said the couple had been married for three years, had no children, and had been living in the city for several years. The husband hailed from Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, while his wife was from Asansol, West Bengal.

According to officials, the friend who received the video only knew the name of the housing society. He searched for the number of the station house officer of Sector 10 police station and reported the incident.