Model found begging not a junkie: Docs

NEW DELHI: The strange case of Gitanjali Nagpal is becoming stranger. Doctors treating the model at the capital's Vimhans hospital in South Delhi said that the model was mentally exhausted and emotionally unstable. But they wondered if she was really a drug addict - she has not shown any withdrawal symptoms characteristic of an addict in the last 24 hours, they said. This doesn't really add up to what her sister Madhulika had told reporters earlier. "Everytime she comes, she wants money. But it all goes into drugs and alcohol. My mother gave all her jewellery to Gitanjali," is what Madhulika had told reporters just the other day. But then Madhulika had also said, "We have not seen her (Gitanjali) for the past three years." Does this mean that Gitanjali might have been a drug user but not really dependant on it? Does it also indicate that this is yet another case of ignorance about drugs - that its use is equal to terrifying addiction? Or, is it that Gitanjali was indeed an addict but has managed to successfully kick the habit in the last three years? Interestingly, media reports have suggested that the beat constable in Hauz Khas village area - where the model was living for the last two months on pavements, parks and temples - was aware that a local drug peddler was supplying Gitanjali her daily fix. Doctors proffered another view. On Tuesday, Dr Jitendra Nagpal, consultant psychiatrist at Vimhans, said, "It has been more than 24 hours that Gitanjali has been under a public eye. But so far, she has not shown any withdrawal symptoms so characteristic of a drug addict. We did not find her craving for drugs, neither did she suffer from cramps or red eyes. So may be she is not an addict."