Man shoots girlfriend before killing self in Burari rented room

A man identified as Nikhil shot his girlfriend, Shubhangi, dead and then turned the weapon on himself in a rented room in Delhi’s Burari area on Thursday. The police discovered the bodies when Shubhangi’s younger sister returned from work at around 3:30 pm to find both lying on the floor in a pool of blood, and the investigation so far points toward a possible suicide pact.

The couple had been living together in the rented accommodation in the Kamalpur area of Burari for approximately one month. Shubhangi was a native of Uttar Pradesh, while Nikhil was from Haryana and had separately been residing in north Delhi before the two began sharing the rented room.

Police said the two had been in a relationship for the past few months. A senior police officer told reporters that the preliminary investigation suggests the deaths may have occurred under mutual understanding.

“Prima facie, it seems that this was a suicide pact and was done under mutual understanding. We are waiting for the crime and forensic teams for further details,” the officer said.

No suicide note was recovered from the room. However, Nikhil had reportedly sent messages to members of his family shortly before the incident. Police are waiting for both families to arrive in Delhi before proceeding further.

The bodies were found by Shubhangi’s younger sister, who lived in the same rented accommodation. When she returned home from work around 3:30 pm, she found both lying dead on the floor with blood spread across the room.

Police received a PCR call about the discovery and rushed to the spot. The Burari police station team, CATS, and the crime team are present at the scene. The crime scene is being examined in detail. The bodies have been sent for post-mortem, and further legal proceedings have been initiated.

Investigators are currently working to ascertain the exact sequence of events: whether Nikhil shot Shubhangi first and then took his own life, or whether the two had made prior arrangements for what happened in that room. The absence of a note complicates the reconstruction, though the messages Nikhil sent to his family in the period immediately before the deaths are being examined as part of the investigation.

Reports indicate that Nikhil was unemployed at the time of the incident. The question of what drove the two to this point, whether it was financial strain, pressures on the relationship, family opposition, or a combination of these, is a central part of what investigators will try to establish through interviews with both families and examination of the couple’s phone records and communications.