Fruits, cars, cellphones looked alien: Strange world greets Ghaziabad man chained for 31 years at Jaisalmer animal farm
Published On : 2024-11-29T17:36:17+0530 [ IST ] |
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NoIDA: Home after 31 years Bhim Singh finally found family and love. The rest is a strange world for him.
On Thursday afternoon their first full day with him since he was a nine-year-old boy his parents and sister had a hard time convincing Bhim to eat.
Fruits looked alien to him and the sight of a gulab jamun put him off so much that he refused to eat it until his mother pleaded with him to try.
Kept chained and confined at an animal farm in Jaisalmer where he was made to toil as a slave since he was abducted from Noida in Sept 1993 Bhim had no contact with the outside world until he was rescued last week by a Delhi-based businessman who happened to be passing
So everything Bhim sees - from smartphones to cars - is a discovery. The only foods he knows of are roti, dal and chai which is all he would be given at the farm.
When I offered him a gulab jamun he frowned and asked 'ye kya hai?' When he finally agreed to eat it he found it delicious. He loved apples and mangoes as a child but now he can't recognise any fruits
Leelawati was in tears when she first met Bhim at Khoda police station earlier this week. "He may have these problems from years of captivity and torture but he recognised me instantly. As soon as he saw me he said:
It didn't even take me a second to recognise her. My mother's face hasn't changed she only looks old now," Bhim said.
When he was still a boy the death of a goat had enraged this man so much that Bhim received a severe beating that left him with a broken jawbone and a fractured right hand. He was never taken to a doctor and healed in his chains resulting in a permanent deformity on the right side of his face
Bhim, who was tied up when he wasn't working at the farm, said he was beaten almost daily.
The only other humans he saw were people who came to buy sheep and goats from Sairam. Some of them enquired about him but Sairam dismissed him as a 'paagal' (madman) who lived nearby.
During the ride back the rescuer realised Bhim was from somewhere in Noida or Ghaziabad. "He dropped me at a railway station in Delhi and put me on a train going to Ghaziabad. He told me to go to
The reunion took four days as the police tracked them down from old case files after Bhim told them he was kidnapped in 1993. He remembered his parents' names but not where he lived.
Day of the kidnapping
Bhim's elder sister Santosh said she took him and his younger sister Rajo to school as usual. Bhim was in class II and Rajo in class III. "Around 2pm Rajo returned home and told us she had a fight with Bhim over an umbrella. He wanted her umbrella when they were returning home but she refused. The angry boy sat on the roadside when he did not have his
A letter was dropped outside our house in the evening asking for 7.4 lakh for his release but there was no address or number to call. We didn't hear from the kidnappers after that. The three sisters had given up on seeing Bhim ever again but they didn't abandon his memories - every year they tied a rakhi
Saleemuddin a childhood friend who called him jhalmuri because of his love for spiced rice crisps told TOI he couldn't believe his ears when he heard about Bhim's return.
Source : Reporters From Sunrise Chronicles
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NoIDA: Home after 31 years Bhim Singh finally found family and love. The rest is a strange world for him.
On Thursday afternoon their first full day with him since he was a nine-year-old boy
