Fearing the sun, a man in India has not stepped out for 25 years!!!

He hasn't stepped out of his house for 25 years. No, he isn't physically challenged. This 44-year-old man, who lives in a Chhattisgarh village, is simply scared of the sun and its rays.

Gautam Singh Parihar has kept himself confined to his small house in Dhamtari district's Hinchhapur village for all these years because of his great fear of the sun rays - a phobia neither doctors nor witch doctors have been able to cure.

Parihar is from a poor family, which has now got into debt after spending thousands of rupees on possible cures by a 'Biaga', a person who claims to treat people through witchcraft. The village is in the Nagari block, some 160 km from Chhattisgarh capital Raipur. More...

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