He screams when he is hungry, but no one is there to feed him. He can’t sleep properly and is in a pitiable condition. He has got two sons and a daughter, but at such a crucial age, there is no one to look after him.

This is the plight of octogenarian Gurbhajan Singh, who is locked alone in a house in Mooran Wali
Gali, Patiala, for the past five years.

However, the matter came to light when residents of the area recently approached the Kotwali Police and urged the authorities to allow them to shift the old man to some old age home.

“Gurbhajan’s son and a daughter are settled abroad and the other son resides in Patiala. We have requested his son to take him out of the house, but to no avail,” said the residents.

“The kin of Gurbhajan shifted to Patiala some five years back. Since then he is living an inhuman life in the locked house,” said the residents while speaking to The Tribune.

Gurbhajan’s only company is his neighbours, who sometimes talk to him to ensure that he is medically fit. The only time they come to see him is during evenings, when he comes near the gate of the house to eat the food left by his kin. And many a times, he screams of hunger because animals had eaten the food.

Meanwhile, his immediate neighbour Rajinder Kumar and Parminder Kumar said he often banged doors during the night shouting that he was hungry.

“We have to give him food to pacify him,” they said, adding that Gurbhajan’s kin keep food for him once a day only.

The conditional of the old man could be gauged from the dirty clothes which he is wearing. As in this weather he was wearing two sweaters. With uncombed hairs, unusual body language, people felt that he was mentally unstable but if someone was caged in a house from past so many years, his conduct would, obviously be like that of Gurbhajan, opined a majority of the residents.

However, the claims of the residents proved to be true when TNS spoke to him as not only Punjabi, Gurbhajan was well versed with English. He said he was educated and had served as a manager in a prestigious firm and then quietly went away.

tomorrow never dies if you are young today and tommorow u gona be old soo no worry..
guru nanak dev ji keh gayey ne "JO APNE MAA BAAP DA KHAYAL NAHI RAKHDA OH KADI NANAK DI NAZAR VICH BAKSHEYA NAHI JANDA"  :rabb:

Menu galji nai samjh ayee, eve koyee apne dad nu ghar vich lock kyu karuga.. nalle ghar lock karn da ki purpose aa
Menu theek nai laggi News.

He should be put into a rest home.

i believe thats the least a child can do for his or her parent

correction to my own post lol dont know what i was thinking loll

why should he be put into rest home?

he is a parent ..if parents can spend their whole life taking care of their kids... why cant the kids do the same? good deeds do pay off at some point in life and i believe the least a child can do for his/her parents

Because that's where old people who can no longer take care of themselves should be. Better than where he's at now. Yeah, you made a point but it's not the same over here.

yes i know thats where old people who no longer can take care of themselves go and trust me i understand where ur coming from ...however me being indian and from what i understand its not really considered acceptable in most indian families...yes its changing and some people think its best thing to do ...i just feel sad that parents take of kids when they are in need however kids cant take care of parents when they need them the most :)
im not saying ur wrong or anything :D just an opinion :blink:

I know what you're saying. Parents took care of us and so we should return the favour later on. But yeah.