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Apple seeds contain amygdalin, a compound that can release hydrogen cyanide when broken down in the body.
Bitter cassava varieties contain higher levels of these compounds, whereas sweet cassava varieties have lower levels.
Pushpavathi, who was killed in 2009, belonged to the carpenter community; her three sisters did not get a marriage proposal for nine years after her murder
Jolly listened to the chargesheet unperturbed. As she was being produced in court, Jolly shouted at media persons who were trying to take photographs.
After a series of cases of luring women with an offer of marriage on false identities, rape, and killing them with 'contraceptive' pills laced with cyanide, Mohan was finally arrested by Bantwal rural police in 2009.
The police investigations revealed that after suffering losses in real estate business, Simhadri started cheating with claims of possessing supernatural powers.
This is the 20th and last of the murder cases registered against the criminal, who has killed several women using cyanide after befriending and raping them.
The six and last charge-sheet explains on how Jolly killed her mother-in-law Annamma, her first victim, back in 2002.
The police custody was extended after the investigators submitted that they wanted to take the three accused to several places including Coimbatore from where one is suspected to have bought the cyanide used to kill five people.
Jolly had told the police earlier on Monday that she had hidden an article, which was crucial to the case, in the house.
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