Hyderabad: Two siblings stayed with their mother’s body in a rented house for around 10 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, had died on Jan 23.
Cops said the women were in a “state of shock” and could not give crucial details about the incident. On Friday, the daughters told the police that they saw their mother before going to bed on the night of Jan 22. The girls slept in one room, the mother in another. In the morning when they tried to wake her up, she didn’t respond. They checked her breathing, pulse and realised she was dead.
The distraught women, collapsed and fell unconscious. During the 10 days, they gained consciousness a couple of times, but were in a state of depression, said police. They allegedly could not come out of their home or inform anyone about their mother’s death as they were weak physically and mentally. They survived only on water, the women told the cops.
Police shifted the body for post-mortem examination and started an investigation. “At this moment, there does not seem to be any foul play behind the death, but the exact cause would be known from the PME report,” said R Saidulu, station house officer, Warasiguda. The daughters said they were afraid after seeing their mother dead as their father had already left them, and now they would be ‘orphans’, said Saidulu.
Police said that in all these days, none of the neighbours noticed any smell from the house or even checked on the residents, even though the house remained closed.
According to police, Lalitha separated from her husband, CL Raju, around five years ago. She, along with her two daughters, lived at Manikeshwari Nagar near Osmania University and moved into a rented two-room house at Boudha Nagar, Warasiguda, three months ago.
Lalitha would stay 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 their house, said a cop — the reason for their absence from work is being probed. The two daughters have not been able to recollect details of any relatives.
On Friday around 4.30 pm, when the women stepped out of their house, neighbours inquired with them and directed them to the police.
