Kolkata, June 1 -- A couple was arrested and another person detained on Monday by police in connection with the deaths of a young man and a woman whose bodies were recovered from a rented flat in South Kolkata's Aurobindo Nagar area.

The bodies of 25-year-old Mohammed Dilshad, a resident of Tiljala's Picnic Garden area, and 21-year-old Mehuli Sanyal of Raja S.C. Mullick Road, were found inside the flat on Sunday afternoon after neighbours alerted the Golf Greeen Police Station when a foul smell began emanating from the apartment.

According to a senior Kolkata Police officer, the flat had been rented by Dilshad in April and the two were believed to have been living there together for the past few months.

Police said their preliminary inve...