Jammu, January 31: Apprehensive that their love would never get the approval of family elders due to caste difference, a couple in love allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison at a village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, police said today.
The lovers, identified as 20-year-old Romi Singh and 18-year-old Priya Verma were found dead near a drain at Billawar tehsil in the district yesterday, they said.
In a suicide note recovered from the spot, the couple stated that were taking the extreme step as their families were against their marriage, police said, adding that the duo, belonging to different castes, was in the relationship for the past five years.
A case has been registered in this regard, they said.
–PTI