A 27-year-old woman was reduced to a “bag of a skeleton” and has died allegedly due to starvation enforced by her husband and mother-in-law for dowry, police said Saturday, in a case that has caused a public outrage.
Thushara, a native of Karunagappally near here, was denied proper food for days and survived only on soaked rice and sugar syrup before she breathed her last at a government hospital here, police said, quoting the postmortem report and neighbours.
At the time of her death on the midnight of March 21 due to illness and uneasiness, the woman weighed just 20 kg, they said.
Thushara’s husband Chandulal and his mother Geetha Lal were arrested and remanded Friday, police said.
