Girl found living in house filled with garbage, rescued

New Delhi: A 17-year-old girl, whose parents have been fighting a legal battle over maintenance, has been living alone in a flat filled with garbage in east Delhi’s Mandawli area for the past three months, police said on Sunday.
She was rescued on Saturday after neighbours alerted the police and admitted to a hospital. The teenager had been living in the flat that was kept locked from inside. She was surviving on two meals a day and sleeping on a sofa surrounded by garbage in a second-floor, two-room flat.
After she was rescued and admitted to the LBS Hospital in Mayur Vihar, she claimed that she had voluntarily confined herself in the house. However, the neighbours alleged that she had been forcibly confined by her mother. (PTI)