Woman shackled by kin rescued
A 22-year-old woman, who was kept in chains by her family that claimed she was mentally unstable, was rescued by her neighbours in Telangana’s Jagtial town on Wednesday, police said on Thursday.
An eyewitness said Chityala Geetha, a resident of Vani Nagar area, was found crying in front of her house with her hands tied with an iron chain in the evening. Geetha told the neighbours that she was being tortured by her brothers and sisters-in-law. “When I tried to run away from home , they tied my hands with an iron chain behind my back and locked it,” she said.
Geetha said she lost her father a few years ago and was living with her brothers — Chityala Narayana, Ramesh and Srinivas — since then. “She claimed to have done her graduation in arts and worked as a teacher in a private school for some time. She
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alleged that her sisters-in-law Manasa, Latha and Radha had been ill-treating her for the last few years and forcing her to do all household work. Even her brothers used to beat her regularly,” V Srinivas, a local resident, said.
The neighbours, with the help of local municipal councillor Guggilla Harish, took her to Jagtial police station. Police then summoned her brothers who said Geetha was mentally unsound since she was 11 and they had spent a huge amount of money on her treatment. She used to hurl stones at people and that was why they chained her.