Rajasthan: Shopkeeper opens shop despite prohibition, locks mother, daughter inside
A woman and her daughter who were accidentally locked up in a cloth shop were rescued by police after two hours in Rajasthan's Dholpur district on Monday. The shop was opened despite government orders and when a police jeep reached the town, the shopkeeper locked the shop hurriedly and left for home even when two customers were present inside the store.
Women started crying, shouting, a local man heard their screams
The shopkeeper has said that they were locked up inadvertently. The women started crying and shouting for help but no one heard them because there was no one present near the shop. After nearly two hours, a local man heard the screams.
The women felt suffocated due to lack of ventilation
Fortunately, the Dholpur SP along with other police personnel were passing through the area and the man stopped them to inform them that some women were crying for help. There was no ventilation and the women felt suffocated. They started crying for help but there was no one to hear. They remained locked for nearly two hours before being rescued, SP Kesar Singh said.
The shutter had to be broken to rescue them
He said the police somehow managed to get the phone number of the shopkeeper Banwari and asked him to come to the shop. However, Banwari was unable to reach the place as he was apparently held up in a marriage function. Since the women were constantly crying, the shutter was then broken to rescue them, Singh mentioned.
Case registered against the shopkeeper
Meanwhile, the shopkeeper also reached the SPot. He said that he hurriedly closed the shop and forgot that there were customers inside the shop. The women had been locked up accidentally, he said. A case against the shopkeeper was registered for violating government guidelines under the Epidemic Diseases Act and relevant IPC sections for illegal detention, the SP added.
