Coimbatore: Rescued by the anti-human trafficking wing in the textile city, a blind woman who had no clue how she got here was sent to Coimbatore Corporation’s night-stay shelter way back in April 2016.
Since then, the shelter had become the 60-year-old Telugu-speaking Ms Sangaramma’s home.
“We tried several times to encourage her to speak up and tell us about her whereabouts before she got here but to no avail. In fact, she revealed to us about her home town only recently,” the NGO president K. Gangadharan said.
She disclosed that she was from Kamareddy, Telangana. The NGO then got in touch with the local police and shared with them a photograph of her The local police then shared her photograph on social media.
By sheer chance, her son Ramesh, a labourer in Kamareddy, identified his mother in the photograph and approa-ched the police. Ramesh came to Coimbatore and picked up his mother.
