BANGALORE: Anantaiah Shetty lay on an old mattress, a steel plate and tumbler lying beside him, his ankle bound in a dog chain . Above him were water tanks; below, his sons and their families lived in his palatial home. At 93, a small enclosure on the terrace was all he could call home.

A second story of human cruelty in Bangalore came to light on Wednesday, when cops in the upscale JP Nagar rescued Shetty from the little shed, after neighbours tipped off a Kannada TV channel. It came a day after Hemavathi's dramatic rescue from her Malleswaram residence, where she was confined for five years by her father.

Shetty was chained and locked up by his sons in the makeshift shed on the terrace of the three-storey building he owned in south Bangalore.

The elderly man would be taken to the terrace every day by his third son, Suresh Kumar , and chained there for the entire day. This was going on for more than a year, neighbours alleged. He was forced to spend the day on the 4-ft long mattress covered with old bedsheets. At night, his son would take him down again.

Suresh Kumar and his wife Kalpana were arrested and produced before a court, and released on bail.

Father of six children - four sons and two daughters - Anantaiah Shetty lived with Suresh Kumar and Girish Kumar, the younger siblings.

"It's difficult to look after my father as he has no control over his body and dirties the house," said Suresh Kumar.

"How can we keep cleaning up the entire day?" asked his wife Kalpana.

On Wednesday, following a tip-off, JP Nagar police led by DCP South HS Revanna rushed to the house and rescued Shetty.

"Please save me, shift me to any old age home," Anantaiah Shetty repeatedly requested police.

He was admitted to Victoria Hospital , where doctors said his left leg appeared to have weakened due to the continuous chaining. Later in the day, he was shifted to Sanjay Gandhi Hospital in Jayanagar, where doctors have kept him under observation.

DCP Revanna told TOI they had taken Suresh Kumar's statement and are awaiting Anantaiah Shetty's statement. "Let Anantaiah recuperate first. He appears to be in shock over the way his sons treated him," he said.

A widower, Anantaiah ran a grocery store in Kalasipalya which he sold in the late 1990s. Elder sons Venkatesh Kumar and Sanath Kumar lived separately after a rift with their younger siblings Suresh and Girish. In 2005, Anantaiah's wife Nagaratnamma died of a prolonged illness.

