Gurugram, Jan 23 (PTI) Gurugram police on Thursday made new revelations in the death of a 35-year-old software engineer here claiming that he committed suicide by hanging after a scuffle with his wife's father and cousin.

According to the police, Navdeep Singh had a fight with his father-in-law Rajkumar and cousin Rohit in his house in Ashok Vihar Phase 2.

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The two men then went away after locking Singh in one of the rooms, they said, adding that the engineer then committed suicide by hanging himself with a bedsheet.

The post-mortem of the body was today in which the doctors found out that Singh had committed suicide, a spokesperson of Gurugram police said.

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Rajkumar and Rohit have been arrested and a case has been registered against them for abetment to suicide, he said.

Earlier, the police booked Singh's wife Seema and brother-in-law for murder on the complaint of the engineer's father.

The police had earlier registered a case of murder but after new revealations in post-mortem report, they replaced the section of murder with abatement to suicide, the spokesperson said.

On Wednesday, Singh was found dead in his Ashok Vihar Phase-2 house. His body was discovered by a neighbour after he went inside the house to check on the man on request of his father Krishan Kumar, who is a Sub Inspector in Haryana Police.

The engineer's wife and their three-year-old daughter were missing from the house, the police said.

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