| Sisters lock selves in for 6 years in Delhi |
NEW DELHI An eerie silence shrouded the Gupta household in north Delhi’s Rohini where two sisters had locked themselves for the last over six years. Traumatised and frightened to face the world since their father’s death, the sisters were “starving and smelling” when a medical emergency team rescued them from their home on Saturday.
Rescued by a team of Centralised Accident and Trauma Services (CATS), Mamta (40) and Neerja (29) were found in tattered clothing and with dishevelled hair, wounds seen all over their body, doctors said. The sisters, who lived with their 60-year-old mother and Mamta’s teenager son, were not fed properly for months together as they battled financial and emotional crisis after their father passed away 10 years back.
“They were never seen outside for last six-seven years. We used to
hear them screaming inside their house and could gather little from Mamta’s son Shubham who came to play with children,” neighbour Archana, 20, recalled.
Their sorry state was revealed only after the sisters’ cousin Neeraj, who came over to visit them on Friday evening, decided to call the CATS on seeing Mamta’s condition deteriorate.
Indo-Asian News Service
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