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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (JS)

Mangaluru, Sep 11: In a tragic case, a woman from Bengaluru was found abandoned at KSRTC bus stand here on Friday September 11. Members of Tulunada Rakshana Vedike rescued her and handed her over to the police, who in turn sent her to an ashram.

The woman, Sumathi, is a widow. She has two sons and a brother in Mangaluru, and is said to be well-to-do, but abandoned without any money in her hand.

She was staying in Bengaluru, but after the death of her husband she shifted to Mangaluru and stayed in a rented house at Deralakatte.

One of her sons then shifted her to a guest house, but as she did not have any money to pay the rent, she was put out of there. Her sons then took her back to Bengaluru and then to Chennai. In between, her brother too had shifted her to some house but she did not stay there long. Her sons again shifted her to a guest house in Mangaluru.

However, as she had no money of her own to pay the rent, she again had to leave the guest house and then started living near the bus stand.

She spent a few days lingering near the bus stand and all her efforts to reach her sons for help went in vain as they did not respond to her calls, it is said, and neither did she have money to travel.

Tulunada Rakshana Vedike on learning of her plight on Friday went to her rescue and shifted her to a guest house, and later took her to the women police station.

The police sent her to an Ashram at Fajir and efforts to locate her sons are on.

The Vedike members filed a complaint with the police in which they said that Sumathi owns two houses in Bengaluru and land in Mangaluru, and expressed suspicions that a property dispute may be behind the case. They urged the police to investigate the matter from all angles.