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When an 18-year-old girl died by suicide hours after her 20-year-old cousin hanged himself, neighbours began speculating if the brother-sister duo had a love affair. People generally tend to come up with theories when an unusual event takes place, especially when some murky affairs between cousins have been in the headlines recently.

Grisly Murder in Delhi’s Ghazipur: When Delhi police began investigating the case of a burnt body in a suitcase dumped in Ghazipur in January, it zeroed down on a 22-year-old man. The man, Amit Kumar, confessed to killing his 22-year-old cousin, Shilpa Pandey.
Amit revealed that he was in a relationship with Shilpa and they had been living together for a year. Despite Shilpa’s desire to marry him, Amit had been attempting to end their relationship. One night, while in an inebriated condition, Amit had a violent argument with Shilpa. In a moment of rage, he strangled her, resulting in her death.
 

Gujarat Woman Kills Husband Over Affair With Cousin: A woman from Gandhinagar got her husband abducted and killed just four days after her marriage. The woman told police that she was in love with her cousin, and despite knowing this, her parents got her married to another man. This led her to conspire and get her husband killed.

The Kanpur Suicide Case

So when the news of the 20-year-old man and his 18-year-old cousin killing themselves spread in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur, speculations became rife. The girl was an intermediate student, while the man, who lived nearby, was studying for competitive exams.

According to information, on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday, the man took his life by hanging himself at his home. A few hours later, upon learning of his death, his cousin also hanged herself on Thursday morning.
DCP East Satyajeet Gupta and ADCP Manoj Kumar Pandey, after initial investigation, cleared the air on the reason for the extreme step.

The officers said that their family members told the cops that the “girl was emotionally fragile, and it was not a case of a love affair".

“According to them, she was emotionally weak and couldn’t bear the shock," the ADCP was quoted by Times of India, adding that both bodies have been sent for postmortem, and further probe was on.