Hyderabad tragedy: Siblings live with mother’s corpse for ten days in grief-stricken state | India News

HYDERABAD: In a shocking incident, two siblings stayed with their mother’s body in a rented house for around ten days at Warasiguda in the city before coming out and reporting the matter to the police. The siblings, identified as C Ravali, 25, and C Yashwitha, 22, told the police that their mother, C Lalitha, 45, died on January 23.
Seeing her dead, they slipped into depression, collapsed, and fell unconscious. During these ten days, they gained consciousness a couple of times but could not come out of the home or inform anyone about their mother’s death as they were weak physically and mentally, the girls told the cops on Friday. They survived only on water, the women told the cops.
Police shifted the body for PME and started an investigation. “At this moment, there does not seem to be any foul play behind the death, but the exact cause of death would be known from the PME report,” said R Saidulu, Station House Officer, Warasiguda. The girls said they got afraid after seeing their mother dead as their father already left them, and now with their mother’s death, they would be left orphans, added Saidulu.
Police said that all these days, none of the neighbours noticed any smell from the house or even checked on the inmates, even as the house remained closed. According to police, Lalitha got separated from her husband, CL Raju, around five years ago. She, along with her two daughters, resided at Manikeshwari Nagar near Osmania University and moved into a rented two-room house at Boudha Nagar, Warasiguda, three months ago.
Lalitha was at home, while Ravali worked for a garment store and Yashwitha worked for an event managing agency, but they stopped working two months ago and were confined to home, said an official, adding that the two girls are not able to recollect details of any relatives. On Friday around 4.30 pm, when the girls stepped out of their house, neighbours inquired with them and directed them to the police.