Candolim (Goa): Goa police today rescued a woman who was held captive by her family members in the house for almost twenty years at Candolim village.

“The woman was locked in the dark room with the door locked from outside. She was being served food and water through a window,” a senior police official said. She was locked in the house where her two brothers and their family lives.

The team of women’s police station today raided the house when a local NGO Bailancho Saad informed about the woman, who is in her fifties. The NGO alerted police reacting to the email that they had received from a person who had seen the woman in captive.

“When police team went there, she was naked and was reluctant to move out of the room which is at the backside of her parent’s house,” police said adding that she was in the dark room for almost twenty years.

The family members who were questioned by the police informed that the woman had wedded to a boy in Mumbai but returned after she discovered that he was already married, police said.

Police said that the family members had locked her in the room after she started behaving abnormally in the house after her return from Mumbai.

After the rescue the woman was taken for medical treatment by police team.

“We are yet to arrest anyone in this case. The investigation is still at primary stage. The statement of family members are being recorded,” police said.

Team TNV