The police rescued two mentally imbalanced young girls and their father from a house in the Sylhet city Saturday afternoon.
The young girls — Safia Begum, 33, and Afia Begum, 28, — were students of Sylhet Government Woman College and their father Abdul Noor is a Bangladeshi expatriate and owner of the residence No 132 of the Housing Estate in the city.
Relatives and locals said Abdul Noor has been living along with his two daughters at the house, which had no power and gas supply for more than 18 months, after the death of his wife Rokeya Begum.
The two girls were not allowed to go out of the residence during this time, the sources said.
Abdul Noor's nephew Liton Ahmed, also a businessman in the city, informed the local ward councilor of Sylhet City Corporation Rezaul Hasan Kayes Ludi of the matter.
Informed, a Kotwali police team at about 10:30am on Saturday brought Abdul Noo and his two daughters out into the daylight after conducting a drive for more than four hours, sources in the police said.
Kotwali police officer-in-charge Khandaker Nawoz Ahmad told New Age in the evening that Shafia and Afia, along with their father, were taken to the Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital for treatment.
Source : New Age
