Mentally challenged woman chained by parents rescued

Our Correspondent

Tarn Taran, September 1

A 24-year-old mentally challenged woman who was tied with chains by her parents was rescued on the intervention of District and Sessions Judge Harpreet Kaur Randhawa here on Tuesday. A news-item in this regardwas published in a daily today.

On the orders of District and Sessions Judge Harpreet Kaur Randhawa, Civil Judge (Senior Division)-cum-Secretary, District Legal Services Authority, Gurbir Singh and Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Patti, Munish Garg visited Ghariala village and collected information regarding the incident.

On the orders of both the judicial officers, the SHO, Sadar Patti police station, got the mentally challenged girl medically examined from the Civil Hospital. The girl was produced in the court of the Ilaka Magistrate who sent her to Mental Hospital, Amritsar, as her parents were not in a position to get her treated.

The girl was married three years ago but she lost her mental balance after two months of the marriage. Her in-laws sent her back to her parents. The girl’s father, who is a rickshaw puller, and mother, who is a homemaker, said their daughter used to leave home often and never returned home for days together and it was due to this reason that they tied her with chains to avoid any unpleasant incident.

The parents said they had appealed to people for help but in vain. Now after the intervention of the District and Sessions Judge, the woman was sent to hospital.