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Woman admitted to hospital with burns

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, JUNE 5. A woman has been admitted to the Kilpauk Medical College Hospital after she sustained serious burns. While police said that it was an attempt to suicide, her family members allege that she was attacked.

The family members today complained to senior officials at the Police Commissioner's Office in Egmore, that their version was not being recorded in the statement prepared by police personnel of Otteri station. A senior police officer said that there was contradiction in the statement recorded by the police and the complaint given by Vijayagopalan, husband of 48-year-old Kodhai Kumari. Hence, the statement was altered later in the evening, police said.

Vijayagopalan said that the family members had a property dispute with some of their relatives with whom they were staying on V. V. Koil Street in Kosapettai. Last month, they filed a complaint in Otteri police station against a sister-in-law of Kodhai, who allegedly attacked her over the dispute.

Kalpana, staying in the first floor of the same house and related to the injured woman, said she heard the cries of Kodhai and came rushing down. She along with other family members managed to douse the flames and took Kodhai to two nearby private hospitals before admitting her at the Burns Wing of the Kilpauk Medical College Hospital. "When she was taken in an autorickshaw to the hospital, she murmured that someone had poured kerosene and set her on fire. " Ms. Kalpana said.

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