Kolkata: For the past six months, an elderly woman had been waiting at Howrah Station for her son to take her back home. She had never given up hope and everyday she used to sit near the subway at the station, thinking that her son would arrive at any moment. But the moment never came. As a result, she had to keep moving from one part of the subway or the other, begging for food from passers-by.
Eventually, the top brass in the state Secretariat Nabanna came to know about it. Subsequently, directions were given to take necessary steps so that Swapna Chatterjee, a septuagenarian from Garia in South Kolkata, gets rescued.
It was on Tuesday morning that senior officers of Howrah City Police and Government Railway Police went to Howrah Station and found the woman sitting all alone, staring at people as if searching for her son in every person.
Policemen took the woman, who was barefoot, to Howrah Hospital for necessary health checkup. Doctors checked her health and she was provided with necessary treatment. Later, she was taken to a home for elderly people at Udaynarayanpur in Howrah.
The woman still didn't find any fault of her son behind the situation she had been passing through for the past six months. After getting rescued, she said: "My son is yet to get established. So how can I blame him for the situation? I would like to pray to the Chief Minister to help me spend the rest of my life in peace." The woman used to stay in a rented house at Garia. But she failed to pay rent after the death of her husband and moved out. Her son stays in his in-laws' house and had promised to take her home once he gets a job.