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Single-room saga of weird women `busted'

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: Three women members of a family, who confined themselves to their single-room house at Nacharam for the past one year and living in unhygienic conditions, were rescued by the police on Thursday night.

Locals, the police and municipal workers were shocked when they learnt that the women were using the same tiny room for cooking food, answering nature's calls, sleeping and never came out in this period.

"Every inch of the room was filled with filth and the smell was nauseating," A. Satyanarayana, Nacharam police SI, said on Friday.

He suspected the women — Laxmi Bai, 60, a widow, and her two daughters, Malathi, 26, and Prabhavati, 22, — were mentally challenged. Laxmi's husband died a few years ago.

Since then, she and her daughters were behaving peculiarly.

Laxmi has a son Sai Kumar, who is studying in Intermediate course. Surprisingly, Kumar too used to live in the same room and was inside when the police knocked on the doors. He could not explain the behaviour of his mother and sisters to the police. As the smell became unbearable, locals approached local municipality and the Nacharam police who conducted the raid.

The women have been shifted to Gandhi Hospital for treatment.

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