MUMBAI: A 60-year-old man, who had allegedly locked up his wife and three daughters in a room for seven years fearing they would be raped if they ventured out, has been arrested.
“After preliminary investigations, we arrested the accused, Francis Gomes, late last night, for causing hurt to the victims and wrongfully confining them,” Thane police inspector Ashok Pawar said on Thursday.
The hapless women were rescued by police on September 29 with the help of an NGO from their second floor flat in Neelambha Cooperative Housing Society at Naigaon in neighbouring Thane district.
However, Gomes in his statement to the police has refuted the allegations.
His wife Theresa in her complaint to the police had said that Gomes would lock them inside the house when he left for work in the morning and would return only in the night.
According to the complaint, Gomes was extremely possessive of his daughters and had forcibly confined them to the house fearing they would be raped by strangers.
**Gomes and Theresa moved into the flat seven years ago with their daughters. “Since then, the women have been facing this ordeal,” R Gopalakrishnan, member of the NGO Anand Rehabilitation Centre claimed. **
According to Gopalakrishnan,** the accused must be suffering from psychological problems, which explains his extreme behaviour of forcibly confining his family inside the house in his absence.**
Gomes has been booked under sections 341 (wrongful restraint), 342 (wrongful confinement) and 324 (causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code.
The rescued women are undergoing medical and psychological treatment at a city hospital.
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th incident clearly shows that the accused is facing some serious psychological problem.
but this is question mark on the society as a whole as y did not the neighbour take the notice of this unusal things going around.
actually ppl is big cities like karachi , mumbai etc are generally not bothered about neighbours like what they do, what they are and what are their problem and how we can help them under the pretext of “right of privacy”.
if we try to strengthen our relationship with our neighbours (instead of spending our time in parties and clubs 4 social networking) such kind of problem wud be reduced. illegal detention like this cud be noticed more easily.
on the same note what about the relatives of poor women… why did they take the notice of their absence ?
thats y quran and hadiths always emphasie to strengthen relation wid neighbours and blood relatives rather than wid friends.