In a bid to help her late friend architect M R Warerkar's daughter Nilima Warerkar, a journalist, S P K Gupta, has reportedly filed a First Information Report (FIR) against Nilima's elder sister Anjali for mentally torturing her.
In the FIR, Gupta has alleged that Nilima was wrongfully confined, and has pleaded for being restored to her own home to live a dignified and independent life.
Demanding justice for Nilima, Gupta has reportedly summarized the atrocities that Nilima has allegedly suffered at the hands of her own eldersister at her own house.
As per the FIR, soon after her father passed away, Nilima Warerkar and her elder sister Anjali Warerkar started staying at their parental house in the capital.
According to Gupta, Nilima, 58, has been known to him since the 1980s. He said that she had spent a few years in France and had returned to India and seemed quite unhappy.
The reason behind her anguish was her being wrongly misdiagnosed as a schizophrenic and being given psychiatric treatment and unneeded drugs from which she has suffered some side effects.
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From the past few months, Gupta claims that Nilima has been calling him whenever her elder sister is not around.
Nilima has been claiming in these conversations with Gupta that Anjali has got control of her by administering psychiatric drugs and has been threatening to put her again in a mental asylum if she complains to the police or others.
Nilima has also informed that there are restrictions to her leaving the house or using the phone. She also claims that she is given little food and is often denied lunch or dinner or both as punishment for perceived minor offences and imagined disobedience.
After their father's death, the sisters were pending settlement of his estate by their brother Parag Warerkar and two relatives named as administrators of the will.
When Nilima's father's friend visited Parag at his home in DLF and pleaded for justice for Nilima, Parag said he will act in concert with his co-administrators of the will.
During the last several weeks, Nilima had gathered the courage and insisted on Anjali to let her call Gupta in her presence and also asked for permission to visit him for an hour or so.
Upon Nilima's visit at Gupta's place, his wife used to feed her with some snacks and coffee as she was not allowed to have it in her own home.
She looked normal and also talked normally without any signs of any mental disorder.
The couple had planned Nilima's birthday party at their residence on September 25 when she had turned 59 and they had also decided to invite her brother Parag with his wife Suchita and her elder sister Anjali.
Gupta further said in the FIR that earlier on September 16, that Nilima had called him and told him that that Anjali had stolen the money and that she had asked her brother's office to advance the amount pending Parag's return from the USA. The next morning she said that she was getting her brother's office car to keep the appointment with the optician and do the shopping in Sarojini Nagar and INA markets. That was the last time that Gupta had communicated with Nilima.
Gupta has said that he has requested Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi to carry out an independent investigation as the Hauz Khas police station had not acted on his previous FIRs relating to other issues in defiance of clear instructions from Delhi Police Headquarters during his predecessor's tenure.
