ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Police have charged a United States citizen with manslaughter following an investigation into the death of a young lady whose body was found floating in a swimming pool of a hotel in the south of the island last week.
Police said that Nihit Gurram, 22, a behavioral therapist from California, had been charged with “manslaughter by unlawful harm, for causing the death of 22-year-old Siri Vaishnavi Mantena, a student from India.
“ The incident which resulted in the death of Miss Mantena occurred on March 17th, 2024, at Grand Anse, St. George,” the police said in a statement, adding that Gurram is scheduled to appear in the St. George’s Magistrate’s Court on Monday, March 25.
Last Monday, police confirmed that they were investigating the death after they were called to the hotel, adding that “preliminary reports suggest that the deceased went swimming in the hotel swimming pool when she encountered difficulties in the water.”
The police said then that she had been taken from the swimming pool, and CPR was administered, but she was unresponsive. She was subsequently pronounced dead by a medical doctor.
In 2012, Parliament amended Section 237 of the Criminal Code that now a person who commits manslaughter by negligence is liable on conviction on indictment to a term of imprisonment not exceeding five years, while a person who commits manslaughter in any other case is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life.
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