Chennai cops to close confinement case

Chennai: Nine months after the city police rescued a 32-year-old woman and her 10-year-old daughter after they were allegedly confined to a flat in Perungalathur by her husband for three years, the Tambaram all woman police station last week told the victim, now staying in Warangal, that they were closing the case as there is no progress in the probe.  

“We got a call from the police asking to come to Chennai next week to sign certain papers to close the case,” a kin of the woman, Priyanka, told this newspaper.

The family also noted that they also prefer to close the case in Chennai and pursue the case in their native village as it had become difficult for them to travel from Warangal to Chennai on a regular basis.

Priyanka and her daughter were rescued by the police based on her father’s complaint in May last year. Her husband Rameswhar Rao had then managed to get an anticipatory bail.

They were rescued from the apartment where they were allegedly chained and made to starve with little food by Rameshwar Rao, a test tool supervisor in an IT firm.

Immediately after being rescued by the police, Priyanka and her daughter were taken back to her parents’ home in Warangal.

Her husband wanted Priyanka to abort their first child when the scan report indicated she was carrying a girl child.

Since she refused, Rameshwar sought a divorce after his wife gave birth.
But both families convinced the couple to live together and four years later, a boy, named Hemant was born. The boy was living with Rameshwar Rao’s parents.

After the boy was born, Priyanka and her daughter were locked up in the room with no external contact.

Only after Priyanka sought help from father through a neighbor did he come to Chennai to lodge a complaint with the police.