By IANS
Shimla : A woman who appeared to be in her early twenties was found dead in a Shimla hotel under suspicious circumstances. The man who was accompanying her is missing, police said Monday.
The couple checked into Hotel Ashirwad in downtown Shimla Saturday evening for a day. The man entered his name as Manoj Kumar from Guwahati.
The hotel staff called the police late Sunday when there was no response from the room in which the couple was staying. When police broke in, they found the dead body of the woman on the floor.
The body bore no external injuries and the victim could have died due to poisoning, police said, adding that the possibility of suicide could not be ruled out.
“The exact cause of death will be known only after the autopsy report,” said Shimla Police chief Anand Pratap Singh.
Police are trying to establish the identity of the victim as the address and telephone number in the hotel records were apparently fake.