Razia Begum: Telangana woman drives scooter 1400 kms to bring the stranded son back

Nellore : A woman in Telangana drove her scooter for 1400 kms in three days to bring her stranded son back home. from Nellore in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.

Razia Begum (48) set out on the arduous journey on Monday morning armed with local police permission. She took her scooter o Nellore and returned with her younger son on Wednesday evening.

"It was a difficult journey on a small two-wheeler for a woman. But the determination to bring my son back overtook all my fears. I packed rotis and they kept me going. It was fearsome in the nights with no traffic movement and no people on roads," Ms Begum told PTI on Thursday.

She works as a headmistress in a government school in Nizamabad, about 200 kms from Hyderabad.

Her son Nizamuddin had gone to Nellore on March 12 to drop one of his friends and while he was there the lockdown was announced due to coronavirus and he could not return to home.

Razia Begum took the matter in her hands and decided to bring her son back home with the permission from the local authorities.

The story is an example of how a woman can cross all hurdles for her son.