Body of missing 19-year-old Delhi University student found in Yamuna after 6 days

According to police, Debnath near a handwritten enactment behind, indicating an intent to leap disconnected the Signature Bridge, built crossed the Yamuna river

The assemblage of 19-year-old Sneha Debnath, a Delhi University pupil missing for six days, was retrieved from the Yamuna stream adjacent Geeta Colony flyover connected Sunday evening, constabulary said.

Debnath, a nonmigratory of Paryavaran Complex successful southbound Delhi, hails from Tripura. She was reported missing connected July 7. A hunt had been launched pursuing the registration of a missing idiosyncratic FIR astatine the Mehrauli constabulary station.

According to police, Debnath near a handwritten enactment behind, indicating an intent to leap disconnected the Signature Bridge, built crossed the Yamuna river.

Police traced Debnath's movements done method surveillance and confirmed her past known determination arsenic the Signature Bridge. The cab operator who dropped her there, arsenic good arsenic immoderate eyewitnesses, said that they saw a pistillate lasting connected the span and aboriginal disappearing from the spot, they said.

A monolithic hunt cognition was launched with the assistance of the National Disaster Response Force and section constabulary units, covering the Yamuna agelong from Nigam Bodh Ghat to Noida.

Officials confirmed that her assemblage was seen floating successful the stream nether the Geeta Colony flyover. It was aboriginal identified by her family.

Police said Debnath had sent messages done email and messaging apps to her adjacent friends successful the aboriginal hours of July 7. Her friends informed investigators that she had been disturbed and emotionally distressed for the past fewer months.

Her household and friends person besides expressed concerns astir the surveillance infrastructure successful the country astir the Signature Bridge.

A person of Debnath’s claimed that nary of the CCTV cameras connected the Signature Bridge oregon successful the vicinity were operational astatine the clip she was spotted there.

"Despite the Signature Bridge being a suicide-prone area, determination is not a azygous CCTV camera that works connected the span oregon successful adjacent areas," she alleged.

Meanwhile, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha had earlier acknowledged Debnath's disappearance successful a station connected X, noting that she hailed from Sabroom successful southbound Tripura. He had besides directed constabulary to instrumentality contiguous action.