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Woman succumbs to burns

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Radha, 23, succumbed to burns she suffered following a quarrel with her husband at T. Dasarahalli in Peenya Police Station limits on Monday night. According to the police, Radha and Ravi Kumar had an argument over taking a house on rent. Radha poured kerosene over herself and Ravi Kumar, who was in an inebriated state, set his wife on fire. She was taken to Victoria Hospital by her neighbours. She had died late in the night, the police said.

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