KCS Mani’s wife passes away

ALAPPUZHA: Lalithambal, wife of the

late revolutionary

KCS Mani, passed away at the

medical college hospital

here while

undergoing treatment

for a renal ailment on Wednesday. She was 77.

Hospital sources said she had been undergoing treatment for the past one year, and was hospitalized on Wednesday. Her condition worsened and she breathed her last in the evening.

Lalithambal married KCS Mani on September 10, 1957, and the couple did not have any children.

Mani, owing allegiance to RSP, had on July 25, 1947, hacked diwan Sir

C P Ramaswamy

of the erstwhile Travancore at the Music College in Thiruvananthapuram. The assassination bid paved the way for Travancore to join the Union of India.

Lalithambal was living with her sister's sons. She would be laid to rest at 3 pm at Ambalappuzha on Thursday. tnn