The death of a young woman in Kottayam district of Kerala recently, after having a non-veg dish from an eatery, has been found to be due to food poisoning and the chief cook of the restaurant was arrested on Sunday, police said.
An officer from Gandhinagar police station in Kottayam said during their investigation it was found that the woman, a nurse in Kottayam Medical College, died due to food poisoning and subsequently, the chief cook of the eatery in question was arrested.
The woman, Reshmi, had ordered food from that eatery in the last week of December 2022.
Besides her, 21 others too had fallen sick after consuming food from the same eatery, police said.
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