By Shishir Prashant 
PrashantNews
A couple was killed by their four friends after a liquor party in Haldwani town of Nainital district in Uttarakhand, police said on Thursday.
All the four persons have been arrested, SSP Nainital Manjunath T C said.
In the morning, police got the information that two bodies of a man and a woman were lying in the Galla Mandi area in Haldwani with severe head and face injuries.
Based on certain documents which were found at the scene of the murder, the deceased were identified as 31-year-old Shubham Tamta, a resident of Almora, and 19-year-old Laxmi Pokhariya, a resident of Okhalkanda, Nainital.
The SSP said after detailed investigations, physical evidences, CCTV footages, the police managed to nab the four accused, who have been identified as Gaurav Negi alias Akku Thakur (25), Saurabh Bhatt alias Bhatia (20), Deepu Sharma alias Dhruv (20), and Deepesh Latwal (25), all residents of Haldwani.
The SSP said all the six persons were fully drunk when the incident occurred on Wednesday night. In the beginning, the four accused began molesting Lakshmi, which was resisted by Shubham. In a fit of rage, the four men killed Shubham first. Later, they also killed Lakshmi fearing that she might reveal their identities to the police. Before leaving the area, the four men also hit both Shubham and Lakshmi on their heads and faces with stones to conceal their identities.
Police investigations revealed that Shubham and Lakshmi were staying together in a live-in relationship.
The SSP said the stone used in the murder, mobile phones, and blood-stained clothes belonging to Gaurav Negi and Deepu Sharma have been recovered.
He stated that Gaurav Negi and Deepu Sharma are criminals with many cases registered against them.