Haryana, September 01: Two young lovers ended their lives in a suicide pact, fearing resistance to their affair from the village elders, police said here.
Ritu and her lover Jaildar hailed from village Bosti near Tohana in this district. Students of a local college, both were deeply in love with each other, they said.
“Perhaps because they belonged to the same village and because of the ‘bhaichara’ (brotherhood) which exists between the villagers, they feared that village elders will not approve their marriage and decided to end their lives,” a police official said.
Last night, they eloped and readied themselves for marriage under the open sky, he said, adding the girl attired herself as a bride and the boy as a groom.
“In the morning today, their bodies were found. They left a suicide note saying they were taking the extreme step on their own and none should be held responsible for their death,” he said.
The police registered a case and handed over the bodies to their families after conducting postmortems.
—Agencies