A 30-year-old software engineer allegedly strangled his wife to death before dying by suicide in their apartment at a residential society in Gurugram, police said.

The techie, Ajay Kumar, sent a video message to a friend on Sunday afternoon stating that he intended to take his own life. Alarmed, the friend called police around 3:15 p.m.

Officers rushed to the 13th-floor flat at Millennium City Society in Sector 37, where they found Kumar hanging from a ceiling fan and his wife, Sweety Sharma (28), lying dead on the floor, police said.

According to police, a scarf had been used to strangle Sharma. “It appears that Ajay killed his wife after an argument and then hanged himself,” a senior police official said.

Both Kumar and Sharma worked as software engineers at an IT firm in Gurugram an

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