Lalitpur couple suicide was in fact a hate crime

What appeared to be suicide by a young couple in Lalitpur district on January 1, turned out to be a double murder committed by the family of the woman, fearing social stigma, a police investigation has found.

SP Lalitpur Mohd Mustaque said that the police had received information on the morning of January 1 that a 19-year-old woman was lying dead and a 21-year-old man was hanging from a tree in village Rajpur Vigah, under the Jakhora police station of Lalitpur district.