Rajkot: A woman with learning disability from Nagpur in Maharashtra was reunited with her family with the help of voluntary organisation Sakhi in Jamnagar on Thursday.
The woman, Radha (name changed), was found near Khambhaliya Gate at Khijada Temple in Jamnagar on November 16. A concerned citizen called up the 181 women helpline and informed about the woman.
“The 181 women helpline contacted us, following which we shifted the woman to our shelter home. Radha was found to be psychologically distressed. She told us that she left her home in Nagpur without telling anyone. She had earlier married a person in Hapa of Jamnagar district,” said a volunteer of ‘Sakhi’ one stop centre.
“On investigation it was revealed that her husband had divorced her, owing to her mental illness. The woman gave her husband’s contact number, following which we called him at our centre. The woman’s husband gave us the numbers of the woman’s sister and mother in Nagpur,” added the volunteer.
As the woman’s mother was too old to travel and that her other daughter too suffered from mental illness, Sakhi sought the help of Jamnagar police and Jamnagar railway authorities.
The Jamnagar railway officials confirmed the woman’s ticket and reservation and the Jamnagar police sent a woman constable to accompany the woman to Nagpur.