A Maldivian woman arrested in connection to the murder of a Philippines national employed as a nurse at Indhira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH), has been remanded.

Maldives Police Service (MPS) confirmed the arrest of the Maldivian woman under a court order, on December 16.

The court has since remanded the woman; Haleemath Lamha by 15 days.

Mary Grace was employed as a worker at the Dialysis Center of IGMH. The Filipino nurse’s suspicious death was reported on October 19. After bringing her body to the hospital, her spouse initially claimed that she committed suicide by hanging. However, he is to have later changed the story.

The police arrested her spouse, 29 years of age and also a Filipino employed as a nurse in IGMH, under suspicions of murder as there were no signs of suicide by hanging, on the victim’s body. Her spouse was arrested on October 27. The Criminal Court on October 28 remanded the man by 15 days. His remand had been extended after the initial period expired.

The murdered nurse’s body was sent to India for an autopsy and returned to her family in Philippines afterwards, on November 7.

Citing the autopsy report, the police institution revealed that her death is not believed to have been by hanging. The autopsy report indicated that she died from a “blunt trauma”, which refers to an injury of the body by forceful impacts, falls or a physical attack on the body.

Sources report that Marvin; the victim’s spouse and Lamha were having an affair. The latter is also a nurse employed at IGMH.