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Locked In Rooms, Urine-Stained Clothes: 39 Rescued From Old Age Home In Noida

New Delhi:

Elderly people locked in rooms, no staff to take care of them, some of them wearing urine and faeces-stained clothes, while others left alone with no clothes. Such a pitiable condition of the elderly people was found at an old-age home, Anand Niketan Vridha Ashram, in Noida’s Sector 55.

A video of the poor state of the old-age home, which went viral, was also recently sent to the Social Welfare Department of Lucknow. The short clip showed an elderly woman kept in a room with her hands tied. Soon after, the State Women’s Commission and the Noida police raided the home on Thursday and rescued 39 senior citizens.

When the officials reached the spot, they found many elderly people tied up in their clothes and locked in rooms. According to State Women Commission member Meenakshi Bharala, some old men were locked up in basement-like rooms. While most of the elderly men were not wearing clothes, the women were given partial clothing. Many of them were found with urine-stained or feces-stained clothes.

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