‘Chitta took all my sons’: Punjab woman loses all five children to drugs, breaks down in pain: ‘They don’t understand…’
Kapurthala civil surgeon Sanjeev Bhagat said the patient was suffering from serious health problems such as hepatitis C, HIV and fluid in his left lung. “After reaching the medical college on Monday, he was put on a ventilator. He showed signs of improvement on Tuesday morning but then started sinking and died around 3 pm,” he said. He further added: “Since the family’s resources were already exhausted, I appealed to the medical college authorities and they arranged to send the body to his home.”
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The mother fell to the ground in sadness
According to Times of India, the victim’s mother received the news of his death in the evening and when she heard the sad news, she collapsed in pain and repeated that she had lost all her five sons due to drugs. However, the ruling party in Punjab, AAP, and the Kapurthala police rejected their claims, saying their children died of different reasons in the last eight years, one due to addiction and the other while he was in jail in a drug case.
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Unable to suppress his pain, he said in a choked voice: “All my sons were addicted to ‘chitta’ (drugs).” The pain of the police denying his statement that all his sons were addicts came out even in his outcry.
She cried, “I will praise CM Bhagwant Mann for helping my son’s treatment but I will call the police bad. MP Kapurthala wale ne khabar lai, aahnda jhoothian khabran laundi mata (Kapurthala police officer released some news saying I am giving fake news. They do not understand the pain of a mother.”
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He had previously shared that all of his sons died in their 20s, but the youngest was over 30 but now he too has died. The elderly couple now had to care for their two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
The mother said she knew her youngest son was addicted when he married her off. “We got him treated and he was fine for a while. I wanted my family name to continue,” he said.
The incident triggered anger
The incident triggered outrage among local women; Many of them alleged that drugs, especially ‘chitta’, were openly sold in the area, even near the walls of Sultanpur Lodhi police station. Residents claimed that masked traders arrived on motorbikes, quickly delivered packages and left without fear of being caught.
Residents of Pandori Mohalla have expressed concern over the growing drug problem in the area, saying that it has claimed the lives of many young people. On Monday, police carried out a search operation in the area, during which many women expressed their anger at the easy availability of drugs. Three addicts were handed over to the police for treatment by their families.
Charanjit Kaur, another resident, said she also lost two sons to drug addiction; one seven years ago and the other about three years ago.
Many women in the neighborhood shared similar stories about losing two or three sons, while others said their sole breadwinner became a victim of addiction. A grieving grandmother pointed to her little grandchildren and begged, “Our sons are gone, at least save these innocent children.”
(With TOI entries)
