JOIN USThe body of O K Indu, who was recently engaged and set to be married on May 16, was found on Thursday night, police said.
Indu, from Thiruvananthapuram, had gone to the state capital to meet her parents, they said. She boarded the Trivandrum-Mangalore Malabar Express on April 24 but never reached her destination.
NIT lecturer Subash, who was also travelling on the train, complained to the police that she was missing as the train reached Kallayi near Kozhikode the next day. Indu’s bags and mobile were found on her seat.ailways and police had launched an intensive search operation to find Indu.
Police had been searching the Periyar river after receiving a message that a woman’s body was found floating.
Indu’s partially decomposed body, found in a deserted spot at Kozhikkadavu, was identified by her relatives on Thursday on the basis of the jewellery she was wearing, police said.
While Indu’s relatives have said there was no reason for her to commit suicide, police is probing all angles.