Millionaires turn beggars in quest for peace
HYDERABAD: When we started enquiring about their background, we found two of them a little peculiar. They were arguing with our staff in English and did not appear like beggars. Upon enquiry, we learnt they were, in fact, very rich and educated
Educated and owners of posh apartments — that usually can’t be said about beggars. But the Hyderabad Police found two such women as they were sending beggars to rehabilitation homes.
The police are preparing for the visit of Ivanka Trump, the daughter of US president Donald Trump, and found the stories of the two women who were arguing in English with authorities at a rehabilitation home.
Several women beggars from a dargah or shrine for a Muslim religious figure at Langar Houz on the outskirts of Hyderabad were brought to Ananda Ashram at Cherlapalli jail on November 11 after the police declared begging as an offence and banned people from seeking alms on the city’s streets for two months.
Nearly 1,000 beggars have been shifted to the ashrams for Ivanka’s three-day visit to K ARJUN RAO , in-charge at Ananda Ashram
Hyderabad for a high-profile entrepreneurship conference. “We have brought 133 women beggars to Ananda Ashram at Cherlapalli jail. And all the male beggars have been shifted to a similar ashram at Chanchalguda jail,” ashram in-charge and Cherlapalli open jail superintendent K Arjun Rao told Hindustan
Times.
“When we started enquiring about their background, we found two of them a little peculiar. They were arguing with our staff in English and did not appear like beggars. Upon enquiry, we learnt they were, in fact, very rich and educated,” Rao said.