Days after the shocking news about a 47-year-old man who has been kept bound in chains by his own family for the past 16 years,the Howrah cops have found another family that has shut itself off from the outside world for a year now,and where two teenaged girls and a boy have been living in sub-human conditions. Salkia resident Tapan Pramaniks daughters Sonamoni (27) and Phoolmani (22) and son Rajesh (20) were found malnourished and living in sub-human conditions in a high-rise flat by a team from the Malipanchghara police station. Tapan himself is missing. Soumendranath Bandyopadhyay,SDO Howrah,told The Indian Express on Wednesday he would send an ambulance on Thursday to evacuate the Pramanik family and bring them to the Howrah district hospital. I came to know of this family today. We have conducted an initial inquiry and decided that medical attention comes first, Bandyopadhyay said. He said the family had withdrawn itself after Tapan became impoverished when his cycle-repair business failed.
