SHIMLA: The two-year-long ordeal of Lakshmi (not real name), a resident of Mysuru in
Karnataka, has finally come to an end with a team from Mysuru finally arriving in Shimla to take her back home. She was living at Mental Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre here for the last about two years as she was speaking only Kannada and this was proving to be a communication barrier and a hindrance in sending her back home. On Wednesday, she was finally handed over to her cousin.
It was a during a function organized by an NGO at Gaiety Theatre here that chief minister Jai Ram Thakur came to know about this woman’s ordeal, who was hailing from Karnataka. Thakur’s wife Dr Sadhna Thakur knows Kannada so she met Lakshmi and came to know that she belonged to Karnataka. Thereafter, efforts were made to contact her family members and government of Karnataka. Thakur himself spoke to Karnataka chief minister on the issue.
When Lakshmi was first admitted at the centre, she had tried to explain her situation to the police but due to language problem no one could understand what actually she was trying to say. She herself does not know how she reached Himachal Pradesh.
Meanwhile, it was an emotional moment for the family members of the woman when she was handed over to her brother, who was accompanied by other family members and officials of Karnataka government, by the functionaries of Himachal Pradesh government in Shimla. Thakur and his wife expressed happiness on the family reunion.
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