Army man's wife dies in mysterious fire in Lucknow

LUCKNOW: An army jawan's wife died of burn injuries she suffered under mysterious circumstances in Cantonment police station area on Sunday. Police said that they were investigating the cause behind the fire which broke out at the house of the army man.
Police said that the woman identified as Tanu Kumari (22) of Shahi Noor Colony Neelmatha was all alone in a room at her house when a fire broke out. Her husband Manish was out of the house to meet his friends. Manish is a jawan in Bihar regiment and he was in the city on leave.
"Around 1 pm, we received a message from the control room about a fire in the house. A team reached there to douse the flames took Tanu to SPM Civil Hospital where the doctors pronounced her dead," said Additional DCP, East Zone, Syed Ali Abbas.
Police said that neighbours came out of their houses after they spotted flames emanating from the house and in the meantime, firemen also reached the scene. The firemen gained access to the room after dousing the fire and rushed Tanu to Civil hospital where she was pronounced dead.
It surfaced that Manish had a verbal spat with Tanu on some issue and he left the house after this. Tanu felt sad at this and she asked her mother-in-law Suman to call Manish. After Suman went to another room, she heard Tanu crying and saw the fire which had broken out in the room, the police said.