KARACHI, Jan 21: The body of a young woman and a man lying unconscious in a hotel room were found in the Lalazar area late Thursday night, police said on Friday.

The police investigators said that the 20-year-old woman hailing from Islamabad and the 25-year-old man from Sheikhupura had checked in on Wednesday and the hotel management became suspicious when the guests neither responded to the room service calls nor did they come out of the room the following day.

The hotel management subsequently informed the police and opened the room in the latter’s presence.

“The police found the woman dead, with tissue papers stuffed in her nostrils and ears which had bled, and the man unconscious,” said SSP Investigation (South) Athar Rasheed Butt.

The investigators also seized some sleeping pills and other medicines found in the room.

The young man had been identified as a doctor by the woman’s family, the SSP said, adding that it seemed that the woman first took the sleeping pills and the man followed suit, but “he either did not or could not take” the number of pills to cause death.

Both the man and the deceased woman were shifted to the civil hospital for treatment and a post-mortem examination, respectively.

The police quoted doctors as saying that samples for a histo-pathological analysis had been drawn from the woman and sent to the office of the chemical examiner.

During the course of investigation, the police found that the woman’s brother had lodged a report with the Sihala police station in Islamabad about her going missing three days ago.

The SSP said that the woman’s family despite having lodged a report about her going missing suspected that she had fled with the young doctor.

Following the post-mortem examination, the body was handed over to the family who took it to Islamabad for funeral.

A case (FIR No 88/2011) under Section 325 (attempt to suicide) of the Pakistan Penal Code was registered on behalf of the state at the Jackson police station.

Late on Friday night, the police said the man had just regained consciousness and recorded his statement.

A police official said that while the man was finally discharged from the hospital after he regained consciousness, he was still in police custody.

He said the young man told the police that they had consumed the pills to commit suicide, as the woman’s parents had rejected his marriage proposal.

The SSP quoted him as saying that since the two were deeply in love they planned their suicide and came all the way from their hometowns to spend some time together in Karachi and finally end their lives.

“The young man had just appeared for his final-year examination of MBBS,” the officer said.