The Dehradun Field Unit was called to the scene, and the Executive Magistrate/Naib Tehsildar of Mussoorie was also summoned to conduct inquest proceedings. (Source: File)A 27-year-old woman from Delhi was found dead at a homestay while on a vacation with her husband in Mussoorie on Monday morning, police said.The police received information at 7.23 am that P Radha Gayatri was in a critical condition and not responding. The couple were staying in a room at a homestay on the Mussoorie-Dhanaulti Road. Though an ambulance was called, a health professional, who was present in the ambulance, examined the woman and declared her dead.The husband, Soumya Sricharan, is a resident of Kidwai Nagar in Delhi. The couple are originally from Vishakapatanam in Andhra Pradesh. According to preliminary information, the deceased and her husband had travelled from Delhi to Rishikesh on Saturday and reached the homestay around 11.30 pm on Sunday. They reportedly went to sleep around 3.30 am, police said.Sricharan told police that when he woke up in the morning, he found blood oozing from his wife’s nose.A postmortem is underway at Coronation Hospital in Dehradun. The families of the couple have reached Uttarakhand. “The father of the victim has stated that he does not want to lodge a complaint. We are probing her medical history, and the family has said that she was under treatment for low blood pressure,” said Devender Singh Chauhan, the Mussoorie police station-in-charge.He added that they questioned multiple visitors at the homestay to probe whether the couple showed signs of unease while on vacation, but no evidence has surfaced so far. “We have not found bruises or external injuries on the body. The postmortem will detect internal injuries since she was found bleeding from the nose,” he said.The Dehradun Field Unit was called to the scene, and the Executive Magistrate/Naib Tehsildar of Mussoorie was also summoned to conduct inquest proceedings.Story continues below this adThe couple got married on November 8, 2025, and worked in IT companies, with Sricharan working in Pune and Gayatri in Gurgaon.Aiswarya Raj is a Senior Correspondent for The Indian Express, covering Uttarakhand. She brings sound journalistic experience to her role, having started her career at the organisation as a sub-editor with the Delhi city team. She subsequently developed her reporting expertise by covering Gurugram and its neighbouring districts before transitioning to her current role as a resident correspondent in Dehradun. She is an alumna of the Asian College of Journalism (ACJ) and the University of Kerala. She has reported on the state politics, governance, environment and wildlife, and gender. Aiswarya has undertaken investigations using the Right to Information Act on law enforcement, public policy and procurement rules in Uttarakhand. She has also attempted narrative journalism on socio-economic matters affecting local communities. This specific, sustained focus on critical regional news provides the necessary foundation for high trustworthiness and authoritativeness on topics concerning Uttarakhand. ... Read More Tags:Mussoorie