Kolkata: A man and a woman committed suicide by hanging themselves at a hotel room in Digha on Friday morning.
Police said the victims Shankar Sarkar (29) and Atasi Sarkar (26) had checked in to the hotel on Thursday and claimed themselves to be husband and wife. Investigation revealed that both of them were residents of Tarakeswar in Hooghly.
Police came to know from the employees of the hotel that it was on Thursday night when they reached Digha and checked in to the room.
When asked by the employees whether they would take dinner on Thursday night, they informed that they already had dinner.
That was the last time, the employees saw them.
On Friday morning, one of them went to clean the room and knocked on
the door.
The employee, who went to clean the room, knocked on the door repeatedly. But there was no response.
The employee informed his colleagues, who also knocked on the door.
Finally, the manager of the hotel contacted police. Policemen from Digha police station went to the hotel and broke open the door only to find both of them hanging from the ceiling.
Police brought both the bodies down and sent them for post-mortem.
They searched the room and found identity cards in their bags.
Police contacted the victims' family members and searched if they had left any suicide note in the room.
Police are yet to ascertain the exact reason behind this extreme step but suspect that some family related trouble led to the incident.
They will also speak to the victims' family members to reach the root of the incident.