The body of a 40-year-old man was found hanging from a tree while his wife’s body was lying nearby in a forest area near Ganga Canal in Muradnagar area.
According to police, Ranpal Singh and his 38-year-old wife Rekha Singh were from Bulandshahr district and lived in Vaishali Colony of Ghaziabad.
Both had gone to their hometown to celebrate Holi and left the village for Ghaziabad on Wednesday.
When they did not reach Ghaziabad till Saturday, Ranpal’s brother Ratipal Singh lodged a missing person complaint at Bibi Nagar Police Station.
Police found Rekha’s dead on the ground and Ranpal was hanging from a tree with a rope, Ghaziabad’s Deputy Commissioner of Police (Rural) Ravi Kumar said.
Their bodies have been sent for postmortem and the medical reports are awaited, the police said.
Ranpal had retired from the army and had been working in Delhi.