Hailing from Randamkutty locality[4] in Kilikollur neighborhood of Kollam, Kerala, she was raised in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with her twin-sister Aysha Latheef[5] by her business-man father Abdul Latheef and mother Sajitha[6] and was educated at Yara International School[7][8] till 9th standard.[9] Upon returning to India in 2015,[10] she got enrolled at The Oxford School in Umayanalloor for one year till 10th and then pursued her higher education in a state-affiliated curriculum school.[10] She got enrolled as first-year student of the humanities stream (five-year integrated MA programme) in Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and was widely described as an intelligent and academically competent student.[11][12][13] She had been accepted to Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi after winning the Humanities entrance exam.