The woman was very upset at the time of discovery. The police are looking for the woman’s husband on suspicion of attempted murder.
Indian police rescued a 50-year-old American woman who was chained to a tree in the western state of Maharashtra from the jungle on Saturday last week. Several foreign media are reporting on the matter.
According to the police, the shepherd heard the woman’s cries for help and alerted the authorities.
The pictures published by the Indian media show a woman dressed in ruffles. One of his legs was attached to a tree with a metal chain.
The police told the American For CBS Newsthat the woman was found in the Sindhudurg area, about 450 kilometers south of the big city of Mumbai.
So far, there is no information about how the woman ended up in the jungle and how long she was chained there.
Peculiar claims
The police took the woman to the hospital. He was later transferred to a psychiatric hospital in the state of Goa. According to doctors, the woman suffers from mental health problems.
Published by India Today on video shows how a woman tells her fate by writing on a piece of paper.
She wrote that her husband left her chained to die after an argument. The woman claimed that she had been given a psychotic injection and had been without food for 40 days.
The police have not been able to confirm the woman’s claims, he says British broadcasting company BBC. The police consider it unlikely that a person could survive for so long without food.
The police inspector leading the investigation of the case Vikas Badave told CBS they found the woman in possession of a photocopy of her US passport, an Indian ID and other documents.
The police are looking for the woman’s husband on suspicion of attempted murder.
The woman also found a mobile phone and more than 30,000 rupiah, or more than 300 euros, so the police have ruled out robbery as a possible motive, the BBC reports.
Ten years in India
An official close to the investigation told an Indian news channel on condition of anonymity for NDTV, that the woman lived in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. He had arrived in India ten years ago, among other things, to study yoga.
According to the official, the woman had married an Indian man, lived with him for years and obtained an Indian identity card.
The police told the BBC that the woman was a ballet dancer in the United States.
In June, the woman had visited Mumbai. The authorities are investigating the reason for the trip.