Old And Abandoned: Sordid Tale Of Two Elderly Odisha Couples | OTV News

Cuttack: Taking care of oldsters in outdated age is a duty each little one is anticipated to shoulder. Parents normally pin hope in a son for care and love at superior age.
Unfortunately not each little one stands by the dad and mom after they want him/her probably the most. Instances of torture and abandonment of outdated dad and mom by their youngsters typically shake our conscience and religion in humanity.
Recently, two such heart-wrenching incidents have come to the sunshine in Basudevpur village, beneath Tigiria police station of Cuttack, and Ishanamunduli village of Soro block in Balasore, respectively.
In the primary occasion, Jemaamani Sahu and Gokulananda an aged couple from Basudevpur village not too long ago knocked on the doorways of the police complaining that their solely little one, an unemployed son, has been forcing them to work at such superior age with a purpose to assist his bills.
In their grievance in search of reprieve from the abusive son, the septuagenarian couple have alleged that the previous would preserve them starved, thrash them up mercilessly and threaten to throw them out of the home if they didn’t labour and earn.
In the opposite occasion, an aged man in Balasore district is begging for presidency help for the remedy of his ailing spouse after their two sons deserted them.
In his police grievance, Bamdev Das from Ishanamunduli village of Soro block has alleged that each his sons bought settled overseas, leaving him alone to take care of his spouse Sandhyarani who is totally paralysed.
“We raised them with our blood and sweat. But after they stood on their feet and earned good money, they left us to die here. They have no concern for their ailing mother knowing well I am unable to look after her because I have no money and strength to earn,”cried Das.
Das stated he was pressured to search for odd jobs for survival and his spouse’s remedy. “But now that she has been confined to bed I can’t go out for work leaving her alone at home.”
From giving his spouse a shower, combing her hair to feeding her, Das has been doing the refrain routinely since many months.Impoverished and damaged by outdated age, Das stated he desperately wants assist from the federal government for primary survival and remedy of his ailing spouse.
“We are living on the mercy of the almighty,”cried Das.