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‘runaway Women Plotted Escape In Quarantine’ | Hyderabad News
Hyderabad: It was perhaps during their days in quarantine when the 14 women planned their escape from the rescue home in Hydershakote, Narsingi, last week. This came to light through conversations that TOI had with the staff and other inmates at the rescue home on Monday.
A couple of women living in the hall that housed these 14 women — along with four others — had tested positive for Covid-19 last month. As their quarantine period stretched till February 12, no staff stepped into this area until then, giving the women enough time to chalk out their strategy. Even after that, there were no checks conducted either in the halls or washrooms.
“The women used to gather in the night and discuss something. Though I tried to join in a few times, I was asked to go and sleep since I did not understand the two languages — Bengali and Kannada — they spoke in,” said one of the inmates living in the hall.
At around 2 am on Friday — February 18 — the women finally executed their plan. As a cover up, they arranged clothes and pillows under blankets to given an impression of someone sleeping. They then used a safe box and bucket to reach the ventilator and jumped out into the setback area of the rescue home. Subsequently, they climbed the compound wall using dupattas, jumped onto the adjacent building and escaped. The women even changed into plain clothes (from their uniform) to ensure they were not identified.
On Monday, the beds in the hall were arranged just as they had been left behind by the 14 women. Even the things used for the escape in the bathroom had not been moved.
While TOI failed to get any satisfactory answer on how the women broke open the metal roads on the ventilator, some staff members said that was possibly done a few days in advance.
Queries on the reason for their escape too elicited vague responses. But if one inmate’s story is anything to go by, it could be the desire to return home, as according to the staff, she was the fifteenth person in the plan but could not escape because she got injured and was found in the setback area. “I could not escape because I was sick and injured,” said the woman from West Bengal. She added: “But it looks like I will die in this home. My parents are old, my mother can’t walk, my father can’t see or hear, and my daughter is also not studying now. I desperately want to go back.” She has been at the home for seven months.
Members of the staff told TOI that they came to know about the escape after three women in the hall started shouting on realising that others were missing. The staff found the clothes of the women who escaped on the side of the building. They said the home submitted a report on the incident to the district legal services authority on Monday.
A couple of women living in the hall that housed these 14 women — along with four others — had tested positive for Covid-19 last month. As their quarantine period stretched till February 12, no staff stepped into this area until then, giving the women enough time to chalk out their strategy. Even after that, there were no checks conducted either in the halls or washrooms.
“The women used to gather in the night and discuss something. Though I tried to join in a few times, I was asked to go and sleep since I did not understand the two languages — Bengali and Kannada — they spoke in,” said one of the inmates living in the hall.
At around 2 am on Friday — February 18 — the women finally executed their plan. As a cover up, they arranged clothes and pillows under blankets to given an impression of someone sleeping. They then used a safe box and bucket to reach the ventilator and jumped out into the setback area of the rescue home. Subsequently, they climbed the compound wall using dupattas, jumped onto the adjacent building and escaped. The women even changed into plain clothes (from their uniform) to ensure they were not identified.
On Monday, the beds in the hall were arranged just as they had been left behind by the 14 women. Even the things used for the escape in the bathroom had not been moved.
While TOI failed to get any satisfactory answer on how the women broke open the metal roads on the ventilator, some staff members said that was possibly done a few days in advance.
Queries on the reason for their escape too elicited vague responses. But if one inmate’s story is anything to go by, it could be the desire to return home, as according to the staff, she was the fifteenth person in the plan but could not escape because she got injured and was found in the setback area. “I could not escape because I was sick and injured,” said the woman from West Bengal. She added: “But it looks like I will die in this home. My parents are old, my mother can’t walk, my father can’t see or hear, and my daughter is also not studying now. I desperately want to go back.” She has been at the home for seven months.
Members of the staff told TOI that they came to know about the escape after three women in the hall started shouting on realising that others were missing. The staff found the clothes of the women who escaped on the side of the building. They said the home submitted a report on the incident to the district legal services authority on Monday.
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