A young couple in Kerala’s Kollam district, who were accused of torturing their four-year-old daughter to death, was let off by the police after  postmortem reports on Sunday stated that their daughter died due to pneumonia. 

Remya and Deepu, a couple hailing from Paripally in Kollam district of Kerala had to spend an entire Sunday at the police station following the death of their four-year-old daughter. She died around 10 am on Sunday after marks were found on the girl’s body which led to the suspicion that the death was caused due to physical torture. 

According to a report by the Times of India, Remya had hit her daughter with a stick after the latter refused to eat food. On Sunday morning, the couple had taken the daughter to the Kollam Government Medical College Hospital after her condition began to worsen. On noticing the marks on the daughter’s body that were caused due to the beatings from the previous day, the doctors enquired with Remya about it, who did inform them about what had happened. 

As per reports, the officials at the Kollam Medical College referred the child to SAT hospital for Women and Children in Thiruvananthapuram. The couple were also said to have been accompanied by a woman civil police officer after the doctor notified the police  station regarding the bruise marks on the girl’s body. 

As the daughter’s condition began to deteriorate on the way to Thiruvananthapuram, she was admitted to the CSI Mission hospital at Kazhakootam, where she passed away around 10 am. Following this, the parents were taken into police custody and a case of unnatural death was registered till the postmortem report arrived. 

It was only around 6 pm on Sunday, that the surgeons from Thiruvananthapuram Medical College, where the postmortem was conducted, informed the police that the daughter was suffering from pneumonia, which was the cause of the death. Following this, the parents were released by the police.