
Family members say Kaushambi had gone to Dumka just a fortnight ago but did not mention Thakur though she was asked about her marriage plans. Kaushambi had gone for the house-warming ceremony of their small single-storey house in Dumka where her mother, Ranjana Devi, runs a typewriting institute.
Devi lost her husband five years ago. Her son Sonak, a commerce graduate, is unemployed. The daughter had started sharing the burden of running the house in 2005 when she got a job with TCS after she completed her MCA from BIT (Mesra).