Overview
- Nikki Yadav, a 20–21-year-old NEET aspirant from Indore, went missing after taking the NEET re-examination on June 21 and her family filed a missing-person report the next morning.
- Villagers found a body floating near the Peetamli bank of the Narmada in Karhi village and Karhi police retrieved and identified it as Nikki on Monday.
- A three-doctor post-mortem team reported no visible external injuries and gave a prima facie cause of death as drowning, with the full report still pending.
- Police say technical tracing placed her phone in the Barwah/Barwaha area of Khargone and investigators are collecting call detail records, social-media activity and CCTV footage to map her movements.
- Nikki’s family disputes a suicide conclusion, alleges possible foul play and has demanded an impartial, higher-level inquiry as authorities continue a cross-district probe into how she travelled from the exam centre to Khargone.