Mother Walks Hundreds Of Miles To Earn Rs2000 To Free Her Mortgaged Son

Agra: In a heart wrenching tale of woes, a young woman traveled with her children from her hometown Dimapur in Nagaland to Agra to find work in order to free her son from the moneylender who has kept her son Sonu as “mortgage”. Rita has to pay back for Rs2,000 to the moneylender the amount she took to conduct her husband's last rites.

Rita lost her husband last year in October and she was earning a meager Rs40 a day which wasn't sufficient to repay the loan she borrowed from a moneylender to conduct the last rites of her husband. On the advice of her brother-in-law she came to Agra but to her dismay she was left in lurch. She had fended herself and her two children by living on streets. With no money, she rummaged food from garbage and fed her children. A shopkeeper also chided her for stealing a water bottle. However, a silver lining came in after an activist Naresh Paras found her on Saturday.

Rita lost her husband last year in October and she was earning a meager Rs40 a day which wasn’t sufficient to repay the loan she borrowed from a moneylender to conduct the last rites of her husband

After knowing her ordeal, Naresh spoke with social workers in her hometown and assured to track her son and the moneylender. The local vendors after coming to know her tale, pitched in Rs3,500.

The woman with the help of the activist boarded the Brahmaputra Mail at 3am on Sunday, accompanied by RPF and GRP personnel.