Overview
- Rescuers, who widened the search with drones and ground teams, located her body Friday near the waterfall after nearly four days of combing the hills.
- The Class 10 student vanished Tuesday around 5:30 pm while visiting with about 40 relatives, and her family searched until about 8 pm before alerting police.
- Investigators registered a case under Section 137(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for suspected kidnapping and are examining all possibilities while they await the autopsy report.
- Police said the site is heavily barricaded with a single access route, and teams faced steep slopes, thick vegetation, fog, and poor visibility that slowed searches.
- Officials tracked 240 vehicles that were at the site and deployed about 60 teams, as the state ordered trekking safety steps including a formal SOP, a temporary tracking app for visitors, trained guides with radios, and group insurance.