A 54-year-old social worker from Fanaswadi area of Kalbadevi on Monday succumbed to burns she sustained in an acid attack on January 13. The woman, Geeta Ajit Virkar, had sustained around 50 per cent burns after her partner, Mahesh Vishwanath Pujari, aged 62, poured sulphuric acid on her. Pujari, who has been arrested in the case, would allegedly fight with Virkar often when she refused to give him money for liquor and gambling.

Virkar with her younger son Aditya; (right) Mahesh Vishwanath Pujari, the arrested accused