India, July 13 -- A 25-year-old software engineer allegedly stabbed his girlfriend to death inside his paying guest (PG) accommodation in Gurugram's Sector 55 before dying by suicide by jumping in front of a train near the Dwarka Expressway, police said on Sunday.

The woman, also 25 and employed as a software engineer, was a resident of Sitapur district in Uttar Pradesh. According to the preliminary investigation, she had travelled to Gurugram around 10 days ago to visit her boyfriend, a native of Durg district in Chhattisgarh, who worked with a private company in Gurugram and was staying at a PG on Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg in Sector 55.

The incident came to light after the woman's family lost contact with her. Police said her father a...