Nagole Police Shift Elderly Couple to Shelter Home After Son Refuses to Accept Them
Hyderabad: Nagole police have shifted a visually-challenged senior citizen couple to shelter home, after their son, who was taking care of them, was found dead and their other son refused to accept them.
The couple, K. Ramana, a former government employee, and Shantha Kumari, did not realise that their younger son, Pramod Kumar, had died four days ago, and were waiting for him to give them some food. Neighbours, whose attention was drawn by the putrid smell from the house, called the police who found that Pramod Kumar had died on October 24 following a bout of epileptic fits.
Police said Pramod Kumar, given to alcohol, would often neglect his parents, deny them food and curse them as a burden on him. His wife was living separately due to his alcohol abuse, police said.
Narrating their troubles, Ramana and Shantha Kumari said they were born blind and married 35 years back. They migrated to the city from Andhra Pradesh after their marriage and sold their farm to educate their sons, Pradeep Kumar and Pramod Kumar. Pradeep Kumar stays separately with his family.
“I am shocked to hear about my son's death but ashamed to say that our both kids abandoned us because we are blind. Though we sold our property, gold and other belongings for them, they did not care. We used to wait for our son Pramod on empty stomachs. My son would be in an inebriated condition and used to misbehave with us saying we were an unnecessary burden on him,” lamented Shantha Kumari.
Police said the elderly couple was found starving and without proper clothing. Nagole inspector A. Surya Naik said that no family member came to meet the couple after police shifted them to the shelter home.
On seeing them semi-comatose, Naik said, he purchased water and food for them, gave them a bath and took them to the state-run shelter.
Doctors said the couple was anaemic, their lungs were infected due to malnutrition and they were suffering from BP and diabetes. "They are physiologically disturbed and we have given them medicines," said Dr M. Jairaj.
When police tried to counsel the other son, Pradeep Kumar, and his wife, they refused to take care of the parents and also refused to visit them at the shelter house. “A strange thing is that no one from the locality even offered them a glass of water,” a woman constable noted.
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Hyderabad, Oct. 29
Nagole police have shifted a visually-challenged senior citizen couple to shelter home, after their son, who was taking care of them, was found dead and their other son refused to accept them.
The couple, K. Ramana, a former government employee, and Shantha Kumari, did not realise that their younger son, Pramod Kumar, had died four days ago, and were waiting for him to give them some food. Neighbours, whose attention was drawn by the putrid smell from the house, called the police who found that Pramod Kumar had died on October 24 following a bout of epileptic fits.
Police said Pramod Kumar, given to alcohol, would often neglect his parents, deny them food and curse them as a burden on him. His wife was living separately due to his alcohol abuse, police said.
Narrating their troubles, Ramana and Shantha Kumari said they were born blind and married 35 years back. They migrated to the city from Andhra Pradesh after their marriage and sold their farm to educate their sons, Pradeep Kumar and Pramod Kumar. Pradeep Kumar stays separately with his family.
“I am shocked to hear about my son's death but ashamed to say that our both kids abandoned us because we are blind. Though we sold our property, gold and other belongings for them, they did not care. We used to wait for our son Pramod on empty stomachs. My son would be in an inebriated condition and used to misbehave with us saying we were an unnecessary burden on him,” lamented Shantha Kumari.
Police said the elderly couple was found starving and without proper clothing. Nagole inspector A. Surya Naik said that no family member came to meet the couple after police shifted them to the shelter home.
On seeing them semi-comatose, Naik said, he purchased water and food for them, gave them a bath and took them to the state-run shelter.
Doctors said the couple was anaemic, their lungs were infected due to malnutrition and they were suffering from BP and diabetes. "They are physiologically disturbed and we have given them medicines," said Dr M. Jairaj.
When police tried to counsel the other son, Pradeep Kumar, and his wife, they refused to take care of the parents and also refused to visit them at the shelter house. “A strange thing is that no one from the locality even offered them a glass of water,” a woman constable noted.
