JAMSHEDPUR: Young couple, who recently married without the approval of their families, died of suicide on Friday.
The incident occurred in the village of Lovjoda under the office of the Boram Rural Police on the outskirts of Jamshedpur.
The deceased was identified as Joydev Mahato (20) and Shyamoli Gorai (17).
Both are residents of Lovjoda Village.
“Mahato and Gorai hang themselves from a tree branch using a single rope,” said the Collected Boram Police Station Shankar Lakra.
Lakra said a record was found in a suicide place that claimed that they were married.
The brother of Joydev, Govind, said that his brother recently expressed his relationship with Shyamoli to his parents and asked permission from them to marry her.
However, Joydev’s parents, reportedly, did not approve of his decision.
Joydev allegedly sneaked out of his house on Thursday night.
He was found hanging out with Shyamoli on Friday morning.
Joydev was in the last year his graduation course while Shyamoli was an intermediary student.
“The corpse has been sent to Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College and hospital for autopsy,” said Lakra.