Lakshmi Shaw was found semi-conscious at Bangalore City railway station on February 28.
A woman who was found at the railway station last Tuesday is recovering, although her two children are still missing.
Lakshmi Shaw was admitted to National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences (Nimhans) after a field officer of a women’s NGO rescued her. Lakshmi’s children—Sheik Salim, 6, and Sheik Fiyaz, 10—have been missing since February 1, when she left her home in Mumbai with them.
Krishna Kumari, Lakshmi’s sister who came to Bangalore upon learning about her sister’s plight, said Lakshmi told them that she had left the children at a madarasa in Mumbai, adding that they could not take her word on it. Krishna said Lakshmi had even written in her diary that she admitted the children to a madarasa. Also, in the diary, she wrote the date on which she left Mumbai and the date on which she admitted her children to the madarasa.
Lakshmi’s husband, Sheik Babur, said the family is searching for the children as they were not sure of what Lakshmi told them. Babur and Krishna came to Bangalore with the photos of the children and were planning to take to streets, asking people if they have seen the children.
Babur said they have received help from the people here and they would not have been able to trace Lakshmi had she been found the way she was in some other state.
From Lakshmi
to Fatima
Babur said he had no idea that his wife used to visit a Madarasa in Mumbai.
It turned out that she had given her name as Fatima Begum.
He added that he
was not even sure whether the Madarasa exists or if it was a piece of Lakshmi’s imagination.
Babur added that Lakshmi had run away from their home earlier too, only to return later. This time, she went with the children and did not return for a month.
Meanwhile, Lakshmi is recovering well. Krishna said her sister read newspaper in the hospital and spoke to them, recounting some details of her journey from Mumbai to Bangalore.
A doctor at Nimhans said she was being treated and given counselling every day and she was responding well to medicines.
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