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This story is from October 9, 2022

Chained at 17 by dad for ‘mental illness’, woman is freed at 53

Chained at 17 by dad for ‘mental illness’, woman is freed at 53
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.
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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.
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Mohammad Dilshad worked as a retail manager before foraying into the field of journalism out of sheer passion for the field. Armed with over a decade of experience with various news channels & print media, he covers crime, politics, education and human-interest issues in the Agra/Aligarh region as senior correspondent

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