Gurugram, May 16 (PTI) A chef and his lover were found dead under mysterious circumstances on Monday morning at their rented house in the Sushant Lok area here.

While Ashwini Kumar (28) as found hanging from a ceiling fan, Nancy (28) was found dead on bed in the same room.

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The Gurugram police said though preliminary investigations hinted at suicide, they suspect that the chef strangled his partner and then committed suicide.

A senior police officer said Kumar was married and his wife lived with his parents in Delhi.

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Kumar worked at a five-star hotel in Delhi while Nancy was working with an international food chain store.

Both were in a live-in relationship for over a year and lived as tenants here. Kumar's brother had approached police when he did not receive his phone call.

No suicide note was found from the spot, police said.

"The causes behind the deaths are not clear yet. We informed their families and kept the bodies in a mortuary," said Virender Vij, DCP, East.

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