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| 100-yr-old woman abandoned in Delhi
10 Apr 2008, 0327 hrs IST ,Deeksha Chopra,TNN
NEW DELHI: She blindly followed the guiding hands of her granddaughter — only to be abandoned outside a shopping complex on the JNU campus on Wednesday morning. Shopkeepers found Karma Devi, who claims to be 100 years old, sitting huddled under a tree, clutching on to a plastic bag that contained a few clothes. The woman, who can barely walk without support, was apparently dumped there by her granddaughter, Ameeta. As a paan stall owner, Puran Chand, recalls: "It was around 10 am when an autorickshaw stopped in front of the Mother Dairy booth and a girl led out an old woman who could barely walk. The next moment, she jumped back into the auto, leaving the old woman alone. We tried talking to her, but all she could say was ‘take me home'. She was blind and hearing-impaired, and had no idea where she was." The incident once again points to the growing problem of abandonment of the elderly in the city. In December 2006, 80-year-old Amita Pal was found dumped outside a recreation centre for the old in the city. Two men who brought her had said they would be back in a few minutes, but they never did. Amita's face bore bruises and cut marks. She claimed that some of her relatives even beat her after a dispute over some ornaments. She waited for her grandson, Mitu, to take her back. Again in October 2007, 64-year-old Munni Devi and her husband Ramesh Chand Gupta were thrown out of their two-storey house in Ashok Nagar by their four sons. Karma Devi's family could not even be traced. The shopkeepers alerted the JNU security after trying to talk to her, but their efforts went in vain as they could not understand her language. All that the old woman carried was a pair of salwar-kameez and some T-shirts. When the Vasant Vihar police was informed, head constable Suresh Chand tried all day to locate her family. But the police could only find out that Karma Devi originally hailed from Sultanpur in Kirojpuri. She was staying with her son Ram Shankar, who's a labourer, at Mahipalpur. Said the head constable: "She was speaking in broken Bhojpuri and could not tell us her address." As the search proved futile, Karma Devi was finally sent to a home for the aged, Vishwa Vridh Ashram, at Gautam Puri in Zaffrabad. deeksha.chopra@timesgroup.com | | |
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