new delhi a 61yearold man ended his life after allegedly killing his 53yearold wife in their house in south delhis vasant kunj on thursday evening the incident took place when the couples 16yearold son was studying in an adjoining room preliminary police enquiry found the couple had frequent fights and this was possibly the reason for the murderthe deceased was identified as jahid ali 61 and his wife as nazneen 53 the couple hailed from odisha and lived in vasant kunj in south delhi around 730pm on thursday some neighbours of the couple called the cops to inform them that a body could be seen hanging in the room and that of a woman bludgeoned to death lay in the house a police team reached the site and saw nazneen unconscious on the floor in a pool of blood while alis body was hanging from the ceiling both the bodies were sent to a hospital where the doctors confirmed their deaths and sent them for postmortem examination ingit pratap singh dcp southwest said they received a call at 750pm about the incident from the couples neighbours inspection of the crime scene suggested that ali hit his wife with some heavy blunt object and she collapsed he continued hitting her until she died he then went to his room and hanged himself singh saidpolice disclosed that all this while the couples son who is a class xii student was studying in the room adjoining the one where the murder took place he heard his parents arguing when he came later to check on his parents he saw his mother prone on the floor and the body of father hanging from the ceiling he rushed outside and screamed for help from his neighboursdcp singh said a crime and forensics team scoured the spot for clues the initial findings suggest that the murder and suicide took place following one of the frequent fights between the couple a case has been registered and all possible angles are being looked into he saidpolice said ali was originally from odisha and owned properties there he had no job in delhi and his wifes family often sent the family daily essentials some relatives claimed that the couple often had fights and a case was going on as well according to the womans brother moeem his sister was allegedly killed by her husband who then hanged himself a case related to their relationship is going on and they often had quarrels they got married in 1990 said moeem the two had in fact filed several complaints against each other though nothing substantial has come of them but today this extreme thing happened