Gurgaon: A 25-year-old software engineer allegedly killed his colleague by slitting her throat before dying by suicide on the railway tracks near Gurgaon railway station, police said.The two had been working at the same IT company in Sector 59 for the past year. The man’s body was found on the tracks around 1.30pm on Saturday. The death was initially treated as an accident, and the Govt Railway Police (GRP) began proceedings to establish his identity.Using documents recovered from the body, police identified him and informed his family in Chhattisgarh. His relatives reached the city on Sunday to identify the body and complete postmortem formalities, still believing he had died in a railway accident.“After the identification, we requested to visit the spot where the body was found. As we were on our way to his paying guest accommodation in Sector 55, we received a call from Sector 56 police station at around 2.30pm asking us to come immediately,” a family member said.Sector 56 police broken open the door of the PG room and found the woman’s body with her throat slit. It was taken into custody and sent for postmortem. Separately, the woman’s parents reached the police station on Sunday morning to file a missing person’s complaint after failing to reach her.A senior police officer said the woman had been living in a PG in Sector 57 but had moved her belongings to the man’s Sector 55 accommodation about three days before the incident. “We are examining the circumstances that led to the killing and trying to establish the sequence of events through forensic evidence, CCTV footage and digital records,” the officer said.According to the man’s family, he graduated from National Institute of Technology, Raipur, interned at Samsung, and had joined the city-based firm as his first full-time job. He celebrated his birthday on June 8 in his hometown and returned on June 16 after time with his family. He remained in regular contact with his mother, last speaking to her on Wednesday.“We had no indication that something like this could happen,” a relative said. Police said they have not established a motive and are awaiting postmortem and forensic reports. Both victims’ mobile phones, along with laptops and other devices, are being examined to reconstruct events leading up to the deaths. GRP and Sector 56 police are conducting separate proceedings into the man’s death and the woman’s killing.
