A 35-year-old woman in Haryana was forced to live in subhuman conditions for the past 1½ years, locked in a toilet by her husband, in Rishpur village of Panipat district, alleged officials.
On Wednesday, the victim, a mother of 3 children, was rescued from a very small & stinking toilet by a team of district women & child welfare department officials. The rescued woman was first taken to civil hospital & now she has been handed over to her cousin.
After getting information that a woman was being held captive by her husband, the District Women Protection Officer Rajni Gupta reached the house with Police Officials & found the woman locked inside the toilet.
Gupta said that the team found the woman lying in the toilet in a miserable condition. During the investigation, it was found that she was forced to live in subhuman conditions for the past 1½ years.
“She was so weak that she could not even walk; she ate 8 chapattis when we gave her food,” District Women Protection Officer added. She wasn't even given proper food & drinking water in captivity.
The woman had been married to Naresh Kumar for the last seventeen years & has three children, including a fifteen-year-old daughter & 2 sons aged eleven & thirteen.
Kumar alleged that his wife had mental health issues but Gupta said that the victim was able to identify all family members & replied to all the questions asked by the team.
The District Women Protection Officer said that “Even her husband could not produce the alleged document related to her treatment of mental illness".
A case had been registered against woman’s husband Naresh Kumar under sections 498 A & 342 of the Indian Penal Code. The accused has been arrested & an investigation is underway, according to Surender Dahiya, incharge of Sanoli Police Station.
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