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Mystery surrounds death of couple

Staff Reporter

KOTTAYAM: Mystery still surrounds the death of a couple on their honeymoon from Karnataka at a private resort in Munnar, a hill station in Idukki district.

The bodies of H. Harsha, 27, son of H.R. Manjunath from Shimoga, and Lavanya, 24, daughter of M.R. Krishnamurthy of Ganesh Colony at Bhadravati New Town, were found in the bathroom of their hotel room. The couple checked in on Sunday, and hotel employees who came to clean the room found the bodies on Monday evening.

A.C. Thomas, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Munnar, said the relatives took the body to Karnataka after post-mortem examination at the Government Medical College, Kottayam. The results of the chemical analysis of organs were awaited, he said.

He said the police had sealed the room for the relatives to arrive and the bodies were removed in their presence on Tuesday.

Harsha was a software engineer with Honeywell and Lavanya an engineer with Subex. The couple had made arrangements for the stay through a travel agent. They were to stay in another hotel from Wednesday.

According to the police, they had informed the driver of the car in which they came to Munnar that they would be moving to Thekkady by the weekend.

According to sources, the couple's parents, who had arrived to take the bodies back home, had said that the two had an arranged marriage and were well placed and, as such, they found no reason for suicide.

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