No foul play, Uttar Pradesh couple died of drowning: Police

CANACONA: The bodies of Supriya Dubey, 26, and Vibhu Sharma, 27, both from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, which washed ashore on the Ourem beach on Tuesday, have been handed over to relatives after the postmortem examination.
The postmortem examination has found that the couple died due to drowning, said police inspector (PI) Chandrakant Gawas. They had come to Goa to celebrate Valentine’s Day, police said.Dubey worked for a private company in Bengaluru, and Sharma worked in Mumbai.
With no eyewitnesses to account for what happened on Tuesday night, police estimated after an investigation that the two went for a swim around 1 a.m. “Sharma might have seen Dubey being carried away by strong currents and must have gone in to save her and drowned in the process.”
Dubey’s body was found on Ourem beach around 7am on Tuesday morning. Police said that they were able to identify the body only after they found a cellphone that had been left on the beach, and unlocked it using her fingerprints.
The phone provided police with information about the deceased, and it was learned that she was staying at a resort in the vicinity. Sharma’s body was found on the same beach a while later, at 1. 45pm.
Ruling out any foul play, police said the postmortem examination has determined that cause of death was drowning, which is supported by the fact that the couple’s belongings are intact in their hotel room, as was the jewellery on Sharma’s body.
On inquiring with the hotel staff, police said that they learned that the couple had spent a few days in North Goa before coming to Canacona on Sunday.
Sources said that Dubey and Sharma had eaten dinner on Monday night and celebrated with some cocktails before heading to the beach. Some foreigners told the police that they had heard some faint cries after midnight, but were not sure of what they heard.