India, Sept. 30 -- A 33-year-old software engineer allegedly murdered his 33-year-old wife, also a techie at a multinational IT company, before dying by suicide inside their apartment in Gurugram's Sector 37D, police said on Monday.

The crime - expected to have taken place between 3pm and 3.30pm on Sunday in Tower-7 of the Millennia-1 society - came to light hours later, when the husband sent a video to a WhatsApp group of his friends, confessing that he had killed his wife and intended to end his life.

One of the friends, a Bengaluru resident, alerted Gurugram Police after seeing the message, investigators privy to the case details said.

Police said the couple had been married for three years, had no children, and had been living in t...