Overview

• Nandana, 21, was found dead at her in-laws’ house in Arammanganam, Uduma panchayat, Kasaragod, roughly four months after her April 26 marriage to Ranjesh.
• Police said she messaged her mother that she intended to die, after which relatives forced open a locked bedroom and discovered her hanging.
• Melparamba police registered an unnatural-death case and conducted an inquest under RDO Binu Joseph and Sub-Inspector K. N. Suresh Kumar.
• The body was moved to Kasaragod General Hospital for post-mortem, the investigation remains active, and no arrests have been made.
• Officers report no evidence so far of harassment at the in-laws’ home, while noting a broader pattern of recent post-marriage deaths under scrutiny across Kerala.