AGRA: Fifty-three-year-old Sapna Jain spent 36 years of her life bereft of the joys of sunlight, fresh air and freedom. Imprisoned by her father due to an alleged “mental illness”, she was shrouded by darkness and shackled in chains.
Sapna, a resident of Mohammadabad village of Firozabad’s Tundla, ate meals slid to her through a door and took baths with water thrown across windows.
She was finally freed this week, thanks to help extended by former mayor of Agra and BJP MLA from Hathras, Anjula Mahaur.
Mahaur was informed of the case by members of local NGO Sewa Bharti. A group of women from the organisation went to examine the situation after Sapna’s father, Girish Chand, passed away recently.
“We found her in a very bad condition. Members of our NGO bathed her and got her some clean clothes,” said Nirmala Singh, a senior member of Sewa Bharti. MLA Mauhar, meanwhile, spoke to Sapna’s family and got her shifted to a mental health facility in Agra.