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Kerala Police Intensify Probe After 19-Year-Old Found Dead Near Home

Questioning of several detainees follows completion of the inquest.

Overview

  • The decomposed body was recovered Tuesday in a deserted field about one kilometre from her residence near Malayattoor, police said.
  • The missing woman is reported as 19-year-old Bengaluru college student Chithrapriya, with formal identification to follow the post-mortem.
  • A senior officer said several suspects, including her boyfriend, are in custody for interrogation as the probe expands.
  • Police registered an unnatural-death case, with the autopsy expected to establish cause of death and whether it was a homicide.
  • Local media flagged CCTV footage that may show her riding pillion on the day she vanished, though police have not confirmed this.