Mangaluru, May 15: Two weeks after she was set on fire by her husband, a 27-year-old woman from Manjeshwaram in Kasaragod district succumbed to her burn injuries at a private hospital in Mangaluru last night.
The victim, identified as Ranya P Rajan, was a two months pregnant and a mother of a one-and-a-half year old son. After conducting post-mortem, her body was handed over to her parents by the police on Sunday.
Sources of Manjeshwaram police station, under whose limits the attack took place on May 1, said that a team was dispatched to nab 37-year-old Manoj, the murder-accused husband, who is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital in Kollam.
Ranya, a scheduled caste woman and Manoj, who belongs to Nair community, entered into wedlock towards the end of 2013 after a few years of love affair. It was only after their marriage, Ranya saw the true colour of her lover, who was an alcoholic and also had concealed the fact of his first marriage with another woman.
According to her parents and neighbours, Manoj and his mother often used to torture Ranya for no reason. The torture exacerbated after she gave birth to a child one-and-a-half years ago. Every month jobless Manoj used to snatch complete salary of Ranya, who was a staff nurse at Community Health Centre in Manjeshwaram.
After repeated requests from her parents and neighbours she had lodged a complaint against her husband and in-laws with jurisdictional Manjdeshwaram police a few months ago. The police had reportedly given Manoj time to come to a compromise with his wife or face arrest.
On the fateful night of May 1, Ranya was beaten black and blue by her mother-in-law and the former fell unconscious. Manoj, who joined his mother, poured alcohol on Ranya and set her on fire. In the melee, he also suffered burns on his hand.
While Ranya was rushed to Fr Muller Hospital in Mangaluru by her neighbours and parents, Manoj himself got admitted to the same hospital to keep her threatening against revealing truth to the police. It is learnt that he had threatened to kill their son if he brought the fact to the light.
After a week, Manoj got discharged and got admitted again in another hospital in Kerala's Kollam, while Ranya continued to battle for life in Mangaluru. However, on May 14, she breathed her last. A team of police from Manjeshwaram, who are conducting probe into this murder case, visited Mangaluru on Sunday as part of investigation.
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