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Woman rescued

Special Correspondent

TAMBARAM: A Railway Protection Force personnel attached to the police station in Tambaram on Wednesday rescued a woman in her mid-twenties and handed her over to The Banyan, a non-governmental organisation working in the area of rehabilitation of women with mental illness.

RPF Police said the woman was loitering in one of the platforms at the Tambaram Railway Station.

The woman is reported to have interacted with RPF personnel in fluent English.

She had told the personnel that she was an MBA graduate and claimed that she was called Narmada alias Meghna.

The woman is reported to have told the RPF personnel that she is the wife of a film actor, who was also an assistant to a leading director.

Unable to verify her claims, RPF personnel contacted The Banyan and handed over the woman to the organisation’s volunteers.

When contacted, Vandana Gopikumar, founder, The Banyan, told The Hindu that the woman rescued was not the said actor’s wife. “She has a psychiatric illness. She was rescued today [Wednesday] and the diagnosis will be done tomorrow.

“Everyday, several persons with such illnesses are rescued. We need to learn to treat these cases with a little more sensitivity and confidentiality,” she added.

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