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Family members of the antheral recovered dormant with his woman wrong a parked car successful Noida connected Saturday (February 14, 2026) alleged that the mates whitethorn person been murdered, claiming they faced caste-based threats.
The mates allegedly received taunts from the woman's family, and the man's household had received threats, including calls from planetary numbers informing of constabulary action, they said.
The bodies of Sumit, 32, a nonmigratory of Trilokpuri successful Delhi, and Rekha, 26, of Sector 101 successful Noida, were recovered with gunshot wounds wrong a locked car adjacent Sector 107 earlier successful the day. A pistol was recovered from his hand, constabulary said.
"We judge some person been murdered and were victims of casteism," a relative of Sumit alleged. The mates had been successful a narration for implicit a decennary and their families were alert of it, helium said.
"Sumit is my younger brother. He and the miss had been unneurotic for 12-15 years and she attended our household functions. There was ne'er immoderate unit from our side," the comparative said.
Alleging that the mates could person been murdered, helium added that the spot wherever the car was recovered was lone a fewer 100 metres from the woman's colony successful Salarpur and described the circumstances arsenic "suspicious".
Police, however, said a pistol was recovered from Sumit's manus and the car was locked from inside, indicating a imaginable suicide. Senior officers and forensic teams person inspected the country and a post-mortem introspection is awaited, they added.
Officials said each angles, including the family's allegations, are being examined arsenic portion of the probe. Further probe is underway, they said.
