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Engineer couple dies by suicide in Gurugram after emailing company at 7 am
- •A highly educated IT sector couple, Mohammad Aslam and his wife Farhana, was found dead in their flat at M3M Marina in Gurugram.
- •On the day of Farhana's birthday, Aslam sent an email to his company at 7 am stating they were leaving the world and shared family contact details.
- •When company employees failed to reach them, they alerted the landlord, who found Aslam hanging and Farhana lying dead on the floor with injury marks.
- •Police recovered a suicide note, three laptops, mobile phones, and other items, with preliminary findings suggesting Aslam killed his wife before ending his life.
- •Originally from Kerala and married in 2023, the couple had recently shifted from Bengaluru, and relatives suspect corporate work pressure and Aslam's depression triggered the extreme step.
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Mohammad Aslam sent an email to his company at 7 a.m. stating they were leaving the world and sharing family and landlord contact numbers. When employees could not reach them, they alerted the landlord, who found Aslam hanging and his wife Farhana dead on the floor with injury marks on her neck.
Mohammad Aslam and Farhana were highly educated professionals from Kerala who married in 2023 and moved from Bengaluru to Gurugram three months prior. Aslam was a software engineer who studied at NIT Calicut and IIM Indore, while Farhana worked from home for an IT firm.
Police recovered laptops, mobile phones, a rope, a diary, scissors, a pen drive, and a note indicating they were leaving the world, alongside Farhana writing 'I love you' on her clothes. Preliminary investigations suggest Aslam killed Farhana before taking his own life, leading to a case registered under Section 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
