US woman found chained to tree came to India a decade ago to learn yoga
The duo however had a fall out and over the past few months, the woman identified as Lalita Kayi was residing in Goa, which is around 30 kms from the forest where she was found.
On Tuesday, Sindhudurg police in Maharashtra said an attempt to murder case was registered against Kayi’s former husband. (File) THE AMERICAN woman who was found chained to a tree in Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra had come to India a decade ago to learn yoga and meditation, police said on Tuesday. As per senior officers, it was while she was learning yoga in Tamil Nadu that she met a man, got married to him and settled down there.
The duo however had a fall out and over the past few months, the woman identified as Lalita Kayi was residing in Goa, which is around 30 kms from the forest where she was found.
On Tuesday, Sindhudurg police in Maharashtra said an attempt to murder case was registered against Kayi’s former husband. The case was lodged based on a note found in the woman’s bag in which she had written “my former husband”.
After the police team rescued her, on a piece of paper she wrote, “Injection for extreme psychosis which causes severe locked jaw and inability to drink any water. Need intravenous food… 40 days without food in forest – husband tied me to a tree in a forest and said I would die there,” the note read. The police in Banda however said it appeared unlikely that the woman would have survived chained to a tree in the forest for 40 days.
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