One of the two sisters, rescued from their Noida flat after they locked themselves in following severe depression over their father's death, died at Kailash Hospital here Wednesday.
"Anuradha, the elder sister, died at around 7.30 a.m. A lot of factors led to the death," Superintendent of Police Anant Dev told IANS in this suburban city adjoining the capital.
The two sisters were found in a state of acute starvation Tuesday and immediately hospitalised.
Both sisters locked themselves up in their home for seven months and were left to fend for themselves and in a state of utter loneliness.
According to a police officer, the sisters - Anuradha Behl, 41, and Sonali, 38 - had shut themselves up in their house No.326 in the posh Sector-29 of Noida for seven months after their father Colonel (retired) O.P. Behl died two years ago.
They had lost their mother earlier.
However, Superintendent of Police (City) Anant Dev said their father had died in an accident in 1992 and their mother shortly afterwards.
Anuradha suffered multiple organ weakness due to insufficient vitamin intake, said Sarika Chandra, the attending doctor at Kailash Hospital.
Sonali is also in a state of deep depression, she added.
Police, acting on information from neighbours, had to break open the door when the sisters -- both unmarried -- refused to open the door, Anant Dev told IANS.
Their younger brother Vipin Behl, who lives in Sector-50 of Noida with his wife and children, and a maternal uncle used to look after them. But after falling into depression, the two sisters were not cooperating with them, said inspector Vijay Prakash of Sector-20 police station.
Source: MSN
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Leaving many a question mark hanging over the civil society's apathy towards emotionally destitute women, 40-year-old Anuradha Behl breathed her last on Wednesday.
When the door of their Sector-29 flat in the Capital's satellite township was broken open by policemen on Tuesday, the overriding emotion of Anuradha's younger sister Sonali had been: "Let her die." Sonali is currently lying in hospital under the close watch of doctors.
The sisters had been found living alone in an acute state of starvation because of self-deprivation and depression. The pitiable state they were in has sent waves of shock and outrage among the public.
A case in point of the society's indifference to the women's existence is Poonam Singh, a neighbour of the Behls, who failed to notice anything amiss in their house. "I never noticed anyone coming in or going out," she said.
Though there has been one death in the case so far, police have no ground to file a criminal case.
They have done precious little beyond holding society members responsible for the incident. "We have spoken to Anuradha and Sonali's brother, neighbours and society RWA....The society should be more sensitive," Sector 20 police station's additional SHO R. K. Sisodia said.
"There was a diary in the house, in which Anuradha states that she doesn't want to take any (phone) calls or meet anyone. She also writes that nobody should disturb her and Sonali," he said.
Blaming the RWA, he added, "These RWAs collect money… Even if they didn't have the power to do anything directly, the RWA members could have at least informed the police or an NGO."
Source: India today
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