Twentyfive-year old Rekha, who was mentally ill and staying at Nari Niketan, died on Saturday. She was admitted in the Doon Hospital on December 21 and died during treatment on Saturday.
Another inmate of the Nari Niketan, 35-year old Shivani, had died in the Doon Hospital two days ago. It has created question mark over the conditions of the Nari Niketan. Taking cognizance of the incident, Chief Minister Harish Rawat has said that he would ask the District Magistrate to conduct a thorough probe into Nari Niketan affairs and investigate whether the deaths are happening due to mismanagement.
The Dehradun DM, Ravinath Raman, has since formed a team comprised of Chief Medical Officer Dr SP Aggarwal and City Magistrate lalit Narayan Mishra. Dr Aggarwal was directed to conduct medical check of all the inmates staying in the Nari Niketan.
It should be mentioned that the Nari Niketan was recently in the news wherein a case of alleged rape/abortion of a speech and hearing impaired inmate was reported. The SIT formed to crack this case had arrested eight persons. Around 180 inmates are staying in the Nari Niketan and out of which around 120 are mentally ill, said police sources.
Ravinath Raman said that Rekha was suffering from several diseases and when her condition deteriorated on December 21 in the Nari Niketan, she was admitted in the Doon Hospital. She died in the course of treatment on Saturday. Rekha had been living in the Nari Niketan since March, 2015.
Postmortem examination of Rekha was held under supervision of Additional DM Jharna Kamthan & Tehsildar Gurudeep Singh. Cremation of the inmate was held at lakhibag cremation venue under supervision of Additional DM Pratap Singh Shah & Tehsildar Gurudeep Singh.
SSP Dr Sadanand Date said that there is no link with the recent case of alleged rape/ abortion of the speech and hearing impaired inmate.
Dehradun SP City Ajay Singh said that the postmortem report of Shivani revealed that she was having several diseases and died on Thursday evening due to multiple organ failure. Earlier she was suffering from stomach ache and was admitted in the Doon Hospital on December 17. However, she was discharged on December 23 from the Doon Hospital. She was living in Nari Niketan since 2007.