Overview

• The student’s parents filed a missing-person report on July 14 when she did not return from college and her body was recovered near Gandikota on July 15.
• Police had arrested Lokesh after toll-gate CCTV footage showed him riding the girl to the site before returning alone.
• The July 16 autopsy found no evidence of sexual assault and revealed internal liver and intestinal bruising alongside bite marks.
• DIG Koya Praveen and SP E.G. Ashok Kumar publicly exonerated Lokesh and confirmed investigators had ruled out his involvement.
• Authorities have now shifted the investigation to fresh leads in search of an unidentified attacker believed to have used a blunt weapon.