Under the heavy rain on Wednesday night, a heart rending tragedy unfolded in Kukatpally in Hyderabad. A hapless mother had to spent the night with her son’s body under the open sky as the house owner did not allow the body to be brought inside.
It happened even as rain pound the city throughout the night. Suresh, 10, died of dengue on Wednesday evening at Nilofer Children’s Hospital and by the time Eshwaramma along with her younger son could bring the body home in Venkateshwarnagar colony it was dark and raining heavily.
The grieving woman received another shock when landlord Jagdish Gupta refused permission to bring the body inside the home saying it will be inauspicious.
“Our daughter recently got married and we cannot allow a body inside the home”, he said.
It was a heart rending scene as the wailing woman sat with the body drenched in the rain.
Moved by the plight of the mother, local people arranged a tarpaulin to make a temporary shelter. They also collected donations to arrange a coffin and also for the funeral.
There was all round condemnation of the merciless house owner in whose house the mother with two young children was living as a tenant for the last four years
The body of the boy, identified as Akbar, was cremated on Thursday with the help of the neighbours.