All the physical pain she suffered and the emotional turmoil that she went through for days, weeks and months, seemed to get nullified on Wednesday afternoon.
For, among others at the lunch table with Pratyusha, were Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, Deputy Chief Minister Kadiam Srihari and Home Minister Nayani Narasimha Reddy.
When the 19-year-old girl closed her eyes for a moment, it seemed to be too good to be true -- like a dream, as she could still almost smell the ambience that is typical of a hospital room that she went through from July 7.
Pratyusha’s agony began when her father married again after she lost her mother a few years ago. She was put in a Social Welfare Hostel from where she brought home by her father last year. Unfortunately, life appeared to be better at the hostel for the girl as she was tortured day after day by her father and her stepmother.
But voila, it all changed in a jiffy. As soon as she was fit to be discharged from hospital on Wednesday, Pratyusha who was rescued from a house where she was tortured by her own father and stepmother for over two years, was produced in court. And from there, she was driven to the Chief Minister’s Camp Office. A few days ago, when Mr. Rao himself visited the poor girl at the hospital, he invited her for lunch with him and his wife Sobha once she was alright.
