A 16-year-old girl’s suicide in Kerala’s Chottanikara has authorities on edge, with a shadowy Korean Instagram link at the center of the enigma. Aditya’s body emerged from a remote granite pit filled with water, near her residence, yet key puzzles linger despite a week-plus of scrutiny.
Enrolled in her school’s lab technician program, the daughter of Mahesh and Ramya departed for ‘school’ that morning. The suicide note discovered with her bag painted a picture of heartbreak: an online bond formed January 1 on Instagram, shattered by tidings of her friend’s death on January 19. Penned in English and Korean across several pages, it bid sorrowful farewell to her family while citing intolerable grief.
Red flags abound—the profiled account’s scant 12 followers suggest fakery, possibly part of predatory ‘Korean romance’ schemes preying on teens with stolen celeb photos. Phone access delays compound the mystery, alongside Korean annotations in her books awaiting translation. Educators sound alarms on digital vulnerabilities, as police pivot to cyber forensics for breakthroughs in this haunting case.