LUDHIANA: The District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) on Thursday rescued an elderly blind woman who had been kept in a locked house by her daughter for the past 10 days.The daughter of the elderly woman told DLSA team that she had locked her in the house as she had to go attend to her ailing husband in a hospital.DLSA secretary Gurpreet Kaur said at 2 pm on Thursday, they got a call from social activist Gurpreet Singh who told them that Karishna Dasi, a woman aged about 100 years, has been locked inside a house in Gujjarwal for the past 10 days and they should rescue her.She added that she met DLSA chairman-cum-district and sessions judge Gurbir Singh to seek his guidance on the matter and later they constituted a team comprising advocate Harsimrat Kaur and para legal workers.“Afterwards, we took a police team comprising sub-inspector Ramanpreet Singh and head constable Harpreet Singh from Jodhan Police station with us. A we reached the house, we found the blind woman alone inside and as she insisted on meeting her son Gopal. So we called him. Gopal told us that his mother lived with his sister only after which we called her. She told us that as her husband is undergoing treatment at a hospital she had to leave her mother alone at home,” said the DLSA secretary.“By that time daughter of woman came, we had already convinced her son to take her with him as per her wishes. Later daughter of the woman admitted her fault, but said she was helpless,” she added.The DLSA authorities said the woman moved around the house by touching walls and villagers provided her food through a window.

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