Three siblings in their 30s and 40s reportedly locked themselves up in their house since the beginning of the first lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic and lead an anonymous life without any contact with the outside world, but the stench emanating from their house forced the neighbours to take note of their presence. Of the three, while the male member went out to fetch food and water, two women confined themselves inside the house.
The police and municipal staff broke the news of the existence of such a family on Friday night. They had been getting their packed food from local eateries, did not bathe, and did not have power or water connections as they had not paid the bills for several months.
The parents of the siblings used to run a successful eatery (Dosa Point) in the city, but the father died in 2016 after he broke his leg, the mother died in 2017 due to cancer, and the children reportedly slowly slipped into depression. The COVID lockdown in March 2020 seemed to have come as an aiding agent to push them deeper into depression.
