[2] Ten months later, in November 1982, when she was brought to Bombay's JJ Hospital, she was suffering from three types of sexually transmitted diseases, genital warts, and brain tuberculosis which left her spastic and permanently using, and finally led to her death.
[3] The People's Health Organisation embarked on a full-fledged "Save Tulasa" campaign, and with the support of the media managed to rescue her.
[citation needed] Attempts were made to return her to her father, Bir Dhoj Thapa, but she was rejected by his second wife (Tulasa's mother had died shortly after her abduction), and eventually, her family stopped visiting her.
[citation needed] She was released from her institution in 1995, seemingly cured, but had a relapse and died that same year at age 25[4] of tuberculosis she had acquired while enslaved as a sex worker in India.
She also named three other Nepali men, Kancha Sarkhi, Lal Bahadur Kani and Uttam Kumar Pariyar,[4][3] whom the Nepal government had arrested and finally sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.