India, April 1 -- A love story took a devastating turn over the weekend when a 17-year-old girl died by suicide just a day after her 24-year-old boyfriend ended his life in Naigaon, Palghar. The sequence of events unfolded after the man, allegedly distraught over the girl's refusal to move in with him, hanged himself on Saturday night. Unable to cope with the shock and guilt, the teenager followed suit on Sunday.

The couple had been in a relationship for a year. The man, a resident of Asha Nagar in Kolhi village, Naigaon East, worked at a private company, while the girl was a junior college student. Over the past few weeks, he had been pressuring her to leave her parents' home and start a live-in relationship with him. However, she remai...