Overview
- The 27-year-old, identified as P Radha Gayatri, was found dead in a homestay room near Mussoorie on June 15 and her father filed a complaint five days later alleging murder.
- Police initially registered an FIR under murder sections and later added dowry-death provisions after the family raised harassment and dowry-related claims.
- Investigators say the body was found on the room floor without clothes with bloodstains on the bedsheet and two empty liquor bottles present, but they have not publicly established a cause of death or modus operandi.
- After a non-bailable warrant, Dehradun police arrested the husband in east Delhi and the Mussoorie court remanded him to 14 days of judicial custody on July 11.
- The district administration ordered a magisterial inquiry and invited public submissions as the family urges detailed forensic testing and a review of financial and communication records from the days before her death.