A broadcast report by Ashwani Singh on Crime Tak details the deaths of Nisha and Piyush, cousin relatives from Allapur village in Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh, who fell in love and sought to marry. After both families opposed their relationship due to their family ties, the couple eloped on February 16, 2025, to Ghaziabad, where they solemnized a court marriage on February 17, 2025. They rented an apartment in Mahindra Enclave, Ghaziabad, from landlord Sohan Var, presenting themselves as a married couple. Despite changing their phone numbers, Nisha's new contact was discovered by her family, leading to persistent death threats from her father and brothers, who allegedly threatened to shoot the couple. Overwhelmed by extreme pressure and fear, the couple wrote a multi-page suicide note detailing the harassment, confirming that Nisha brought no money or stolen goods from her home, and expressing her final wish to be cremated alongside her husband as a married woman. On March 11, 2025, neighbors noticed no activity and neighbor Puja peeked through a window, discovering both hanging from a single scarf. Police recovered the bodies and the suicide note, sent the remains for autopsy, and opened an investigation into the circumstances and potential abetment.
Country: India
State/Province: Uttar Pradesh, India
City/Region: Ghaziabad
Incident Type: Suicide
Relationship Status: Married
Relationship Duration: Approximately 1 month (marriage)
Incident Date: March 11, 2025
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Piyush and Nisha were cousin relatives from Allapur village who developed a romantic relationship. When their families rejected their marriage proposal due to cousin kinship, they eloped on February 16, 2025, and performed a court marriage in Ghaziabad. Living in hiding as husband and wife, they faced severe and continuous death threats from Nisha's father and brothers. The social opposition and intense family harassment created unbearable psychological distress, culminating in a joint suicide.
Ghaziabad police responded after neighbor Puja peeked into the locked apartment and spotted the couple hanging. Police seized a 2-3 page suicide note written by Piyush and Nisha detailing threats from Nisha's father and three brothers. The note stated that Nisha left home with only two pairs of clothes and no money, and expressed her final request for a joint cremation. Post-mortem examinations were ordered to formally establish the cause of death while police evaluate potential criminal charges regarding intimidation or abetment.
Landlord Sohan Var and local neighbors were unaware that Piyush and Nisha were cousin relatives, as the couple presented themselves as an ordinary married couple. Police initially had to verify whether the scene involved murder-hanging or double suicide, which was clarified by the recovered multi-page note.
After their families forbade their marriage, Piyush and Nisha eloped from Allapur on February 16, 2025. They arrived in Ghaziabad, solemnized a court marriage on February 17, rented a residence from Sohan Var in Mahindra Enclave, and Piyush obtained local employment. Despite changing phone numbers, Nisha's family acquired her new contact details and initiated threatening phone calls. Overwhelmed by fear of violence, the couple wrote a detailed joint suicide note and hanged themselves together with a scarf on the night of March 10-11, 2025.
Severe family hostility regarding cousin marriage, combined with explicit death threats from male relatives asserting willingness to face imprisonment for killing the couple, produced high situational danger and acute psychological crisis, leading directly to a fatal joint act of self-harm.
Intense familial opposition to non-traditional or cousin marriages can produce severe psychological distress and risk when accompanied by violent threats. Formal legal protections and police intervention were insufficient to mitigate fear, highlighting the vulnerability of eloped couples facing targeted family harassment.
Family rejection of the marriage proposal in Allapur village followed by the couple's sudden disappearance on February 16, 2025, and changing of mobile phone numbers.
Silence from the locked apartment on Tuesday morning, March 11, leading neighbor Puja to peek through the window and discover the hanging bodies.
A multi-page handwritten suicide note by Piyush and Nisha naming Nisha's father and brothers as sources of continuous violent threats, denying theft allegations, and requesting a joint funeral.
Neighbor Puja stated that she knocked on the apartment door when Nisha did not come out, then looked through the window and saw the hanging bodies. Landlord Sohan Var confirmed the couple rented the residence on February 17 and lived peacefully as husband and wife.
Initial reports of a young couple's suicide were updated after police recovered the suicide note disclosing their underlying cousin relationship, elopement history from Farrukhabad, and specific police interaction at Kavi Nagar police station prior to the incident.
It remains unresolved whether law enforcement will file criminal cases for abetment of suicide or criminal intimidation against Nisha's father and brothers based on the accusations in the suicide note.