Woman saved in room for 10 years: Kerala Women’s Commission registers case, calls for report

By Express News Service
PALAKKAD: The Kerala Women’s Commission has registered a case and demanded an in depth report from the Nenmara police over the incident during which a youth Rahman hid his lover Sajitha in a room of his home for ten years in  Palakkad’s Ayilur village.

Shiji Shivaji, a member of the Women’s Commission, informed The New Indian Express that after the lockdown, the Chairperson of the Commission Josephine and herself would go to the couple at their house in Vithunassery and take inventory of the developments. She mentioned that although the confinement was within the identify of “love”, the actual fact was that she was denied freedom all these years. Naturally, she wouldn’t have been glad in such circumstances, Shiji mentioned.

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The incident had occurred in Karakattuparambu in Ayilur panchayat when Rahman, 34, who was in love with Sajitha, 28, determined to elope along with her in February 2010. He hid Sajitha in his room and wished to maneuver out to a different home inside just a few days.

However, opposition from each the households and the shortage of an earnings pressured him to cover her from others in his room, he mentioned. Rahman arrange a tv in his room and in addition fastened a lock to the door which was operated electrically in order that nobody else may open it. The woman used to clean up and go to the bathroom within the evening when all others have been asleep.

Sajitha mentioned Rahman used to carry meals all these years and share it along with her at all times. She mentioned when Rahman went out for work, she was glued to the TV and used a headset in order that the noise didn’t come out. Sajitha mentioned that every one her wants have been met by Rahman however she didn’t just like the mother and father of Rahman at all times blaming him.

Rahman mentioned he was taken to psychiatrists and even sorcerers by his mother and father for remedy. A number one psychiatrist in Palakkad mentioned that there was nothing unsuitable with him. Now when he and Sajitha moved to the rented home in Vithunassery, Rahman mentioned that he was given solely his tv and nothing else by his mother and father.

Her mother and father Velayudhan and Shantha might be visiting the rented home of their daughter in Vithunassery on Friday. A way of confidence wants to come back into the lives of Rahman and Sajitha, mentioned Pushpakaran, ward member of Ayilur panchayat and neighbour of Rahman.

He mentioned that he together with Basheer, the brother of Rahman had gone to the police station to file the lacking criticism three months in the past. Similarly, when Basheer knowledgeable him of recognizing his lacking brother, he had gone to the police station. But he was shocked to see Sajitha within the police station who was declared lacking a decade in the past.

He mentioned that every one the locals couldn’t imagine {that a} woman would keep in a room for all these years. He recounted an incident when simply earlier than going lacking from his home, Rahmen had not eaten for 3 days. The mother and father known as me to mediate and he started to eat once more. Pushpakaran mentioned the two-wheeler of Rahman was bought by his father for him and so they have additionally registered 5 cents of land in his identify.

As for Sajitha, Pushpakaran mentioned he has talked to her and located that she knew of all of the essential festivals and the identify of the previous ward member and different minute particulars of Karakattuparambu which led him and the locals to imagine that she certainly stayed in the home all these years.