The Patna hotel where the duo had checked in. Picture by Ranjeet Kumar Dey

A 26-year-old youth and a minor girl died after they allegedly consumed poison in a city hotel room on Tuesday.

Avinash, the youth, and the girl checked into the hotel on Exhibition Road on Tuesday morning.

The hotel staff suspected foul play when both of them opened the hotel room around evening and dropped down unconscious.

It happened around 8pm on Tuesday. The couple were rushed to Patna Medical College and Hospital.

While Avinash died on Tuesday night itself, the girl passed away on Wednesday morning, police said.

The youth, said a hotel staff, appeared to have made a call to one of his relatives before consuming the poison.

A male member of his family reached the hotel immediately after the couple fainted and it was he who, with the help of hotel staff, took them to PMCH.

He had also informed the family of the girl. The boy and girl were residents of Shahpur in Patna.

The staff said the boy and girl had duly entered their details and claimed they were a couple.

“They had checked into room number 105 of the hotel early on Wednesday. They remained confined to their room all through. Around 8pm on Tuesday they opened their door and collapsed as soon as they stepped out.

The police was called and they carried out necessary searches in the room. On Wednesday, the police took away the register which bears their names,” an employee at the hotel told The Telegraph.

“We are waiting for the post-mortem report, which would ascertain the cause of the death,” a policeman posted at Gandhi Maidan police station said.

He further said the police were yet to speak to family members of the deceased to dig out details of the case.

The police contend that prima facie it appeared to be a case of suicide but they were yet to conclude that as they had not recovered any suicide note from the hotel room.

The police have also detained the hotel manager to interrogate him on details of the deceased and also to find out if hotel staff had tampered with any of their belongings.