A 35-year-old woman in Haryana was forced to live in subhuman conditions for the past one and a half years, locked in a toilet by her husband, in Rishpur village of Panipat district, claimed officials.
The victim, a mother of three children, was rescued from a very small and stinking toilet by a team of district women and child welfare department officials on Wednesday.
The rescued woman was first taken to civil hospital and 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 and 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 one and a half years.
“She was so weak that she could not even walk; she ate 8 chapattis when we gave her food,” Gupta added.She was not even given proper food and drinking water in captivity.
