Overview
- Local residents and rescue teams recovered the family’s bodies over three days, with two found on Friday, the father recovered the next day, and the elder daughter found on Sunday completing the recoveries.
- Piravom and Kothamangalam police have registered an unnatural-death case, completed or begun post-mortems, and are gathering CCTV footage and witness statements as part of an ongoing inquiry.
- Investigators recovered CCTV showing the family eating in Piravom on Thursday and used cyber-cell help to trace movements while recording statements from relatives and neighbours.
- Police say the family had been evicted weeks earlier, had approached Kothamangalam police for help, and were due to move into accommodation arranged by officers on the day they disappeared, making financial distress a central line of inquiry.
- The case has prompted local questions about gaps in social support because the family was not covered by welfare schemes and police had been providing temporary shelter and basic aid before the deaths.