A 27-year-old woman employed with an information technology firm in Gurugram was discovered dead under mysterious circumstances at a homestay on the Mussoorie-Dhanolti road, police reported on Tuesday.
Victim Identification
The deceased was identified as P Radha Gayatri, a resident of Kidwai Nagar East in Delhi. She had arrived at the Kiana Homestay in Tipridhar late Sunday night with her husband, Soumya Sricharan, who works for an IT company in Pune.
Events Leading to the Incident
According to police and the deceased's family, the couple had come to celebrate Sricharan's birthday on Monday. They had previously visited Rishikesh on June 13 before checking into the homestay at around 11:30 pm on Sunday.
Sricharan told police that they consumed alcohol at night and went to sleep at around 3:30 am. When he woke up, he found his wife unresponsive, with blood oozing from her nose and urine discharged from her body, he claimed.
Discovery and Response
On Monday morning, Mussoorie police received information about an unresponsive woman at the homestay. A team from Mussoorie Kotwali, accompanied by an ambulance, rushed to the scene. A pharmacist examined the woman and declared her dead.
Police stated, "The body was found lying on the floor without clothes, with bloodstains on the bedsheet. Two empty liquor bottles and food items were found in the room."
Family and Background
The couple got married on November 8, 2025, and both families originally hail from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The deceased's father, P Sudhakar, has lodged a complaint demanding a thorough investigation into the circumstances leading to his daughter's death.
Post-Mortem and Investigation
On Tuesday, a panel of doctors conducted a post-mortem on the body at Coronation Hospital in Dehradun, which was videographed. Circle Officer Jagdish Chandra Pant stated that the preliminary autopsy report revealed no external injury marks on the body.
"To ascertain the exact cause of death, the viscera of the woman have been preserved for further scientific evaluation," Pant told PTI. He added that the exact cause of death will be clear only after receiving the detailed post-mortem and viscera examination reports.
Police are continuing their investigation into the mysterious death, with a focus on the events leading up to the incident.
