Mangalore: Driven out by unfeeling daughter, aged parents at mercy of fate

Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (EP)

Mangalore, Sep 25: He is seventy years old, and his only companion is his 65-year-old wife. The couple have had a comfortable living, looked after their children and made them independent and self-sufficient. They had built a house in their land so that they would not be a burden to their children in their old age.

However, they have been mercilessly thrown out from their house to the streets, by none other than their own daughter.

The couple can be seen holding their hands over their heads looking wistfully at their household items scattered on the roadside. The sight would evoke sadness and compassion in the most hard-hearted of persons, but strangely, their own daughter has not felt any remorse.

The couple, Muttu and Rajamma, residents of Sunkadakatte in Bajpe police station limits has six children - four sons and two daughters. However, they have none of them with them now.

The sons deserted the parents after getting addicted to vices. A daughter is married off in a distant place. The parents had built a house in the neighborhood for another daughter, but instead of being grateful, she allegedly took advantage of their illiteracy and cheated them. She reportedly claimed the house and the land where her parents were living as her own, by means of a legal process, and driven out the parents from their house.

A neighbour said that the couple's daughter, Sharada, had eloped with a man named Palaniswamy some years ago, and later returned home without him. The parents who felt sad for their daughter bought a house for her, besides giving away a small portion of the land as she was alone. Besides that, they got a house built for themselves so that they may not be a burden to the daughter. 

"The daughter showed no sympathy when she drove the parents out, making use of the court order as a weapon. The pleadings of villagers have had no influence on the police who expressed their helplessness in front of the court verdict," the neighbour said.

Muttu and Rajamma are sitting beside the road faced with a bleak future in the twilight of their lives. Driven out from the house built with their sweat and blood, they have been pleading with the villagers to help them get their house back, lest they should die on the street.

The villagers have expressed anguish towards the action of the daughter who has driver her parents out in their old age. The couple has declined offers from villagers who are willing to accommodate them. Muttu and Rajamma refuse to budge till they get their house back. "We will live and die here", they declare, the pain of injustice meted out by their own child visible in their moist eyes. With neither law nor fate in their favour, Muttu and Rajamma are faced with an uncertain future, at a time of life when at least one of their six children should have given them a comfortable living.

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