Himashree Boro, a 20-year-old student of B. Borooah College in Guwahati, was found dead near railway tracks in Andhra Pradesh’s Srikakulam district, triggering demands for a thorough inquiry. She had travelled to the state with a dance troupe for cultural programmes and was due back home for an examination scheduled for 10 October. After missing her planned train, she boarded the Kanniyakumari-Dibrugarh Vivek Express from Visakhapatnam around midnight on 6 October, travelling alone. She told a friend and a relative she felt uncomfortable in a coach with a group of men, some reportedly drunk, and sent a video of the crowded compartment.
Between roughly 2:30 and 2:40 am she made a distress call saying she was being bullied, after which her phone became unreachable. Railway police searched coaches at Srikakulam Road but could not trace her, and her luggage was later found in the S2 coach when the train reached Guwahati. Her body was recovered the next day from a wooded patch near the tracks between Ponduru and Dusi, close to Tekkali. Officials suspect she may have fallen from the moving train, while her mother suspects murder and the family accuses railway authorities of negligence. Separate cases have been registered by the Government Railway Police and the Railway Protection Force, and CCTV and video footage is being collected, though the sequence of events is not yet established.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma wrote to the Railway Minister and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu seeking a full probe and deputed a senior police officer to coordinate. Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi urged the Railway Minister to intervene, citing railway police data on crimes against women. Students in Guwahati, including AASU members, have held protests and a candlelight march demanding justice.