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Almost everyone in the neighbourhood claims to have offered the sisters financial help which they refused. Says Gulshan Kumar, who owns a grocery store just 100 mt from their house. “They never came to my shop for grocery shopping even though all their neighbours do. In fact, I doubt they even had electricity at home.”
While Neeru was cremated, Dolly and Poonam are recuperating in a private nursing home where their condition is said to be stable. Says Dr RK Gupta who is treating them at Sukhda nursing home in GK. “They are stable now. Hunger is a very difficult urge to suppress and it seems like they had lost the will to fight and survive. They had gone without food for at least two weeks.”
National Commission for Women (NCW) decided to provide all possible help to the two women. NCW also added that it would work on a long-term strategy to ensure that other women don’t meet the fate of the three sisters. Several NGOs have also come forward to help the sisters. Says R K Sinha, trustee Vatasalaya Trust, “We want to adopt the two surviving sisters provide them with free medica treatment and if they wish them employed. In a city when even beggars manage to survive, it’s hard to imagine how three educated women, in middle class colony, with house of their own could fall prey to starvation.” ( TOI) .
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