BBCAn National girl was discovered “screaming” in a forest in Maharashtra, northern India.
After shepherd audibly heard her cries for help, Lalita Kayi, 50, was found a week ago in the Sindhudurg district’s thick forests. They called the police, who later sawed the ring away, and helped her.
Ms Kayi, who appeared entirely emaciated, was taken to doctor. According to specialists treating her, she has since improved, and she was moved to a medical facility for further care on Friday.
She alleges that her father” chained her and left her in the forest to die without food or water” in a written statement to the authorities.
According to the information she gave, officers in Tamil Nadu’s southwestern state say they are looking for her husband.
But seven days after Ms Kayi was rescued, there is still no clearness on who she is, how she came to be in the forest, who tied her to the trees, and why.
A cow farmer who found her last Saturday claimed to have taken his animals to eat in the woodland after hearing” a lady screaming loudly.”
” The sound was coming from the mountainside bush.” One of her feet was tucked into a tree when I visited her there. She was screaming like an dog. I called the local authorities and other people.
Police claimed to have found a duplicate of her card, which stated that she was an American citizen, and her Aadhaar cards, which is an Indian national’s official identification card, along with her home address in Tamil Nadu.
They said she also had a mobile phone, a tablet and 31, 000 rupees ($ 370, £290 ) in her possession- which allowed them to rule out theft as a motive.
Locals claim that the woman’s sheep chose to eat his flock nearby on that day as a result of her good fortune. She would have gone for days without someone hearing her cries for help because the forest in which she was found was great.
Prior to moving her to a hospital in Goa, the police immediately moved her to a nearby town.
According to Dr. Shivanand Bandekar, the professor of Goa Medical College, she had some injuries on her leg and appeared to have a mental illness.
” We do not realize for how much she did not eat, but her essential signs are secure”, Dr Bandekar said.
The woman was moved to a medical doctor in the Ratnagiri city of Maharashtra state on Friday because her bodily condition had improved much.
” Already, her health is stable”, medical director Dr Sanghamitra Phule told BBC Marathi.
” She is taking medication, eating, and interacting with people. If she wants something, she may speak it. She just knows American”.
According to the authorities, Ms. Kayi moved to India about ten years ago to study yoga and meditation in Tamil Nadu and was a ballet dance and yoga instructor in America, some studies even claiming to be from Massachusetts.
It was there that she met her husband- in some internet reports, authorities have called him Satish. According to the policeman, she probably had a relationship with her husband at some point.
According to some reports, she spent two days staying at a motel in Goa before traveling to Mumbai, India’s economic capital.
However, it is unclear when or how she ended up in the forest where she was found next year.
Ms. Kayi scribbled notes on a pad to communicate with the authorities and doctors after she was immediately able to communicate. She claimed she had gone 40 days without food and water and blamed her father for attaching her to the branch.
She also asserted that she needed nutrition directly and that she had been given an “injection for serious psychosis” that “locked her jaw” and made it impossible for her to drink water.
” I am a victim and survived. But he ran away from around”, she alleged.
Police claim they have not been able to verify these assertions and that it is unlikely that someone would live for so long without food or water.
They have sent teams to Tamil Nadu, Goa, and Maharashtra to further investigate the case, and they have registered a circumstance of attempted crime against her husband. The authorities have not yet located her father, and she has not made any statements to the media.
Police claim they have found signs in the woman’s cell smartphone and tablet.
The US ambassador in Delhi has declined to comment on the situation. According to media reports, the ambassador has been “exercing pressure on the authorities to speed up the analysis.”
Due to the US Privacy Act, which governs the transmission of personal information, the BBC was informed by a spokesperson.
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