Kundapur: A single phone call saved this woman’s life

Team Udayavani, Jun 13, 2020, 9:10 AM IST

We often hear stories of  how one phone call would have saved a life, especially in matters of dowry and marital issues.

However, In Kundapur, a single phone call and shopkeeper’s presence of mind has saved a woman’s life.

Sources claim, a woman wearing Burqa visited a shop belonging to Augustin near the Kundapur bus stop. The woman asked for a coin phone but as there was no coin phone in his shop he offered his mobile to the woman.

The woman then dialled a number and after she spoke she gave the mobile to him and left from the shop. After some time, the mobile rang and it was her parents calling from Murudeshwar. The parents told Augustin to not let her go and make her stay in his shop as she seems suicidal.

Augustin then went searching for the woman who had not gone too far and made her stay in the shop. Later, the parents came and took the woman with them.

It is said that she was being abused by her in laws and husband on a daily basis and she called her parents to inform that she will be going somewhere far because she did not wanted to trouble them by returning to their house.