Overview

• Remains arrived at Thiruvananthapuram airport on June 24 and were taken to her alma mater in Pullad for public homage before cremation at her family home.
• Senior officials including ministers V Sivankutty and G R Anil and leaders such as CPI(M)’s M A Baby and Congress’s Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan joined thousands of mourners.
• Ranjitha Gopakumaran Nair was a single mother of two working with the UK’s National Health Service who had returned to Kerala to oversee her new home and seek reinstatement in the state health service.
• Her identity was confirmed on June 23 through DNA matching of samples from her mother after initial tests using her brother’s sample proved inconclusive.
• Air India flight AI171 crashed into a medical college hostel shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad on June 12, resulting in over 270 fatalities.