Hyderabad: Nooruddin, a 21-year-old public service commission aspirant, tweeted to IT minister KTR about a destitute woman near his hostel in Dilsukh Nagar before boarding a bus to his hometown in Sathupally, Khammam district. Little did he know that his tweet would give her a new lease of life as the minister ordered a special drive to locate her.

Nooruddin, who was leaving for the Bakrid holidays, saw the 81-year-old Sathyamma in a bad condition near Konark Theatre in the morning. Moved by her plight and wounds on her head, he sent a tweet to the minister.

“We rushed to the spot to locate her. She is physically weak and disoriented,” said Mr Ranga Rao, deputy projects officer, Saroornagar.

It was revealed that Sathyamma is a pension holder under the Aasara scheme and has family members. It is alleged that her family threw her out after fleecing her pension funds. Her daughter is a sanitation staff with the GHMC.

Currently, the octogenarian is admitted to the Osmania General Hospital where she has undergone a CT scan. She has been shifted to the general ward and her daughter and daughter-in-law have reached the hospital. As her family has decided to take her back, she will not be shifted to the GHMC old age home.

“I have been seeing her ordeal since a few days. I am glad that I could help her,” Mr Nooruddin said.