Mother mentally unstable, 3 daughters starved to death in windowless room
Mother mentally unstable, 3 daughters starved to death in windowless room Three minor sisters — Mansi (8), Shikha (4) and Parul (2) — had died in Delhi due to starvation in windowless room the size of a car. The parents of the children — Mangal Singh and Beena — had moved into their new house, a 7x7 windowless room, on Saturday. The room has a wooden cot, a chair, handful of utensils and a wall calendar. Three days after the deaths were reported, the father of the girls, Mangal, a rickshaw puller and a labourer, continues to remain untraceable. His wife Beena, who is mentally unstable, has failed to tell the police how the kids remained deprived of food. “These rooms are not meant for a family of five. There are at least 10-12 such rooms in the building and around 40 people live here, most of who are labourers, rickshaw pullers or slum dwellers. Beena’s family was very poor,” said Manorama, who lives in a room right in front of Beena’s. “We hardly got to see them in the past three days until the death of her kids came to light. The kids never came out of the room since the family moved in. Beena too would barely speak,” she said. Mangal and Beena’s new house is a part of a residential cluster, that has come up next to an open patch that is used for defecation and garbage dumping by the locals. The neighbourhood, where autorickshaws or even an e-rickshaw otherwise refuses to ferry you, on Thursday was swarmed by senior police officers and VIPs. “We have never seen a VIP in our area. Until today, we had only seen them on TV. It is sad that the kids died, but it is equally saddening that the VIPs visit such neighbourhoods only after such a tragedy,” said a resident, who runs a shop next to the building. -PTC News
