A 30-year-old woman was arrested by the Pulikeezhu police in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta for attempting to kill the mother of a newborn at a hospital. Anusha, a resident of Kayamkulam, tried to kill Sneha, 24, inside a hospital room in Parumala on Friday, August 4. After reportedly disguising herself as a nurse, Anusha allegedly injected an empty syringe into Sneha’s veins, causing a heart attack. Sneha, who had given birth just four days before this incident, is currently out of danger.
According to the FIR (First Information Report), Anusha planned the crime because she was allegedly in a relationship with Sneha’s husband Arun, and disguised herself in a nurse’s attire with the intention to kill Sneha. The report says that the murder attempt happened around 3 pm on Friday when the accused entered Sneha’s room and injected air thrice into the right hand of the survivor with an empty syringe. When air bubbles enter the veins of a person, it causes what is called a venous air embolism, which can lead to heart attack, stroke or respiratory failure.
“My daughter became suspicious after the injections were given and asked her mother to follow up with the nurse. So my wife followed the woman and saw that she was walking towards the lift and not to the nurses’ station. She informed the nurses and they caught the accused and questioned her. My daughter (Sneha) had earlier attended the accused’s wedding as asked by her husband, but she did not recognise the woman in her headscarf and mask,” Sneha’s father Suresh told the media.
According to the police, Anusha and Arun knew each other for a long time. Anusha has been charged with Sections 419 (imprisonment for cheating by impersonation ), 450 (house-trespass in order to commit offence punishable with imprisonment for life), and 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).