A 32-year-old man committed suicide here by hanging himself after critically injuring his wife on her head with a sharp object, police said Sunday.
The mother of the deceased informed security personnel after finding herself locked from outside in a room of the flat at Platinum Heights Apartments in Dwarka area of south Delhi around 4.30 a.m. Sunday.
The security personnel, after freeing the elderly woman, found the man hanging from a ceiling fan in another room and his wife lying in a pool of blood. She was rushed to a nearby hospital where her condition was stated to be critical.
The security guard also informed police.
The couple married last year in November but their short-lived marriage was fraught with frequent quarrels, police said. They also said that no suicide note was recovered.
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