The lady stated she was stopped and questioned at each check-post. (Representational)
Mumbai:
A disabled lady travelled 1,200 km from Pune to Amravati in Maharashtra on a two-wheeler to convey again her 14-year-old son house amid the coronavirus lockdown.
An accountant with a personal agency, 37-year-old disabled lady Sonu Khandare rode her scooter for 18 hours to convey her son house from a village in Amravati district.
“My son Prateek had gone to my in-laws’ place at a village in Anjangaon Surji tehsil on March 17 and was stuck there after the lockdown was announced on March 22,” Ms Khandare stated.
The Khandare couple was initially not anxious concerning the boy’s well-being, however when the lockdown was prolonged additional until May 4, they bought stressed.
Ms Khandare approached district authorities, utilized for a journey go on-line and even thought-about hiring a automotive for the journey, which might have price her round Rs 8,000.
She then went to the police commissioner’s workplace to get particular permission.
“When I was granted a travel pass for 48 hours on April 24, I just headed home, packed some food and water and left on my two-wheeler without thinking twice,” the girl stated.
“I kept riding my two-wheeler even at night, with no light except the dim one coming from the headlight and to make things worse, I was stopped and questioned at every check-post along the way,” she stated.
Ms Khandare managed to make a pitstop at a petroleum pump alongside the freeway close to Khamgaon, the place she slept on the sidewalk.
“When I noticed the CCTV cameras near the petrol pump, I decided to rest there on the open ground, as I believed that if anything were to happen to me, it will be recorded,” she stated.
Ms Khandare made an early begin on April 25 and reached her in-laws house within the afternoon.
“I hardly spent a couple of hours there, as I kept thinking about getting back home safely, before my travel pass expired,” stated the mom of three, who needed to deal with dehydration and starvation, other than the tough terrain and potholed roads.
Ms Khandare managed to succeed in her house in Bhosari space of Pune, with restricted stops, at round 11 pm on April 26, simply an hour earlier than her journey go expired.
“My son and I immediately rushed to the hospital to check if we needed to be quarantined, as we had travelled,” she stated, including that medical doctors solely suggested her house quarantine for 14 days and mattress relaxation.
