Rourkela: Four days after being rescued while walking nude on College Road in Odisha’s Sundargarh town, the mother-daughter duo returned to their native place in neighbouring Chhattisgarh on Tuesday morning.
According to sources, the middle-age woman and her daughter were handed over to their family members last evening after being identified by the former’s sister and youngest daughter. They are residents of Kharibahal village within Tumla police limits in the Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh. Later, in the evening, the woman’s brother also came to the police station and a collective decision was taken to send the two mentally-ill women home.
Accordingly, police arranged for a vehicle to send them to their village.
Since the woman spoke in Hindi, Sundargarh police had sent their photographs to bordering police stations in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand to ascertain their identities. The family members also corroborated the fact that the woman along with her younger daughter gradually became mentally unstable after the death of her husband eight years ago. They had been searching for the duo since they left home on Wednesday.
The family also claimed that allegation of sexual assault on them at home were false.
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In Sundargarh, the rescued women are being given professional psychiatric treatment under the surveillance of a women’s police team. However, the circumstances under which they reached Odisha and why they were roaming around naked are yet to be known. SDPO Himanshu Bhusan Behera had told the media that police are scanning CCTV footage to ascertain if the duo faced any sexual assault en route to Sundargarh town from their village.
