India, Sept. 9 -- Ashwini Baburao Kedari (30), who topped among women candidates in the Maharashtra Public Service Commission's (MPSC) Police Sub-Inspector (PSI) examination of 2023, died at a private hospital in Pimpri-Chinchwad after battling severe burn injuries for ten days,. police said on Monday.

A resident of Palu village in Khed taluka, Pune district, Ashwini came from a farmer's family.

"On August 28, she suffered a tragic accident while preparing hot water for a bath at home. According to relatives, she had placed a heater in a bucket of water and dozed off briefly. By the time she woke up, the water was boiling. While turning off the heater and lifting the bucket, the scalding water spilled onto her, and in the chaos she slip...