A 95-year-old woman has been chained by her son in the district headquarters town of Malkangiri to confine her movement as she suffers from dementia.
Rina Sarkar, who stays at Reclamation Colony, has been struggling with cognitive issues developed due to old age. She has been kept in chains by her 60-year-old son Jagdish Sarkar.
“Ma has become mad. If she is not kept shackled, she goes away here and there,” said Jagdish as an explanation for his act.
As a person ages, it is natural for them to lose their mental alertness and their touch with reality, but keeping one’s own parent tied up for this is shocking, a neighbour said.
The neighbours feel pained to see the elderly woman dragging herself, shackled by iron chains bound to a wooden stump held by her son Jagdish and being taken to the market.
