Kolkata's house of skeletons: Man found living with sister's corpse and dead dogs breaks silence

Close to a week after an incident came to light, where a 44-year-old man, Partha De was found living with the corpse of his sister and two dogs at his posh South Kolkata residence, he finally broke silence on Tuesday morning. 

 

On his way to the bathroom at the state-run Calcutta Pavlov Hospital, where he is currently undergoing treatment, he spotted media persons peeping from the main door and walked up to them. He said that he had something important to share with the media persons and started addressing them.

 

 

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On being quizzed, whether or not he informed his father Aurobindo De, who committed suicide, a night before this incident came to light, that his sister was dead and he was living with her skeleton, he said, "My sister died in December and I informed my father around March 10. She used to meditate a lot and started starving. I used to feel very bad. I tried making her understand that she must eat to live, but she just wouldn't listen and finally died," added De. 

 

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Meanwhile, the local court issued an order to shift De from the Calcutta Pavlov Hospital to the Institute of Psychiatry for better treatment. The police is likely to question De today in connection with this case. 

 

In a latest development to the story, the police on Monday ruled out that Partha and his sister Debjani De had any incestuous relationship. A page of the diary that indicated that there might have been a complex relationship between them, was written in childhood, the sleuths revealed. While several sticky notes and diaries written by both Partha and Debjani suggested that the siblings had sexual intimacy, investigators ruled it out completely.