Overview
- Police say 26-year-old Renuka was found hanging in a Langar Houz hotel room after checking in with a man and making a late-night video call to a friend.
- Police detained the man who accompanied her and registered a case while collecting hotel CCTV, booking records and the woman’s mobile phone as part of the probe.
- Multiple outlets report that she ordered food late evening and spoke on video about an upcoming birthday before she was discovered, with several sources placing the discovery in the early hours of Friday.
- Renuka’s family rejects the suicide account and has publicly alleged she was murdered, raising questions about the companion’s role that investigators are seeking to resolve.
- Authorities have sent the body to Osmania General Hospital for post-mortem and are awaiting forensic findings, and reporting shows minor discrepancies in the companion’s name and the hotel’s name across early coverage.