Hyderabad, Nov 7: After a man from Odisha grabbed the world's attention for being forced to walk 10 km with his dead wife hoisted on his shoulder, images of a helpless man pushing a cart with his wife's body on it in Telangana has now come back to haunt the nation.
53-year-old L Ramulu's ordeal came to light after he collapsed, tired and broken, and wept by the roadside until people alerted the police at Vikarabad town.
Ramulu and his wife Kavitha both had leprosy and begged to survive. After she died on Friday near the railway station in Hyderabad, Ramulu wanted to take her body to his village but was told by private carriers that he had to pay Rs. 5,000 for an ambulance. He didn't even have Rs. 1,000.
With his wife's body on a pushcart, Ramulu left Hyderabad on Friday morning but lost his way in the night. He reached Vikarabad (which is located nearly 65km away from Hyderabad) on Saturday afternoon.
Soon, people noticed an elderly man weeping next to a woman's body. Visuals show Ramulu wailing as people come and drop money beside him. Someone called an ambulance to take the body to his village in Medak district, around 80 km away.
"As he did not have any money with him to hire any vehicle, Ramulu put Kavitha's body on a pushcart and walked all along till Vikarabad and reached here last afternoon," G Ravi, a police officer in Vikarabad, said.
The man was reportedly forced to perform the last rites without any support from relatives. Though leprosy is curable, patients still face discrimination and are isolated by their families in parts of India.
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