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- A US woman was found chained to a tree in Maharashtra, India.
- Lalita Kayi, 50, said her husband had chained her to the tree and left her without food or water.
- Kayi is thought to have moved to India a decade ago to study yoga and meditation.
The case of a US woman who was discovered chained to a tree in a rural part of the western Indian state of Maharashtra is puzzling investigators.
Lalita Kayi, 50, was found last week in the state's Sindhudurg district after her screams were heard by a local, according to local media reports.
A cow herder who found Kayi told BBC Marathi that he had heard screams "coming from the forest on the side of the mountain" as he took his cattle to graze.