He lost his way to Medak and reached Vikarabadi instead.
A 53-year-old beggar from Telangana carried his wife’s dead body in a pushcart for 60 kilometers as he could not arrange the money for any other means of transport.
Ramulu and Kavitha, both leprosy patients, used to live near Lingampally railway station in Hyderabad. Kavitha died on Friday night due to ill health and Ramulu wanted to perform her last rites in his native village near Medak.
He carried the corpse on a cart for over 60 km, however, lost his way and reached Vikarabadi instead.
“After his wife’s death, he decided to conduct her last rites in his native village and asked some local private carriers for shifting her body, who asked him Rs 5,000. 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 on Saturday afternoon,” Times Of India quoted G Ravi, Vikarabad Town circle inspector.
Some locals alerted the police when the saw the tired Ramulu crying alongside his wife’s body. They also pooled money for an ambulance.
In August, the whole nation was shocked when a tribal man from Odisha’s Kalahandi district had to walk 10 km with his dead wife’s stiff body on his shoulder, his 12-year-old daughter by his side. He was denied an ambulance from a government hospital to take his wife’s body to their village.