India, Feb. 14 -- A 73-year-old woman was honoured by the Kerala motor vehicles department (MVD) on Saturday for confronting a traffic violator near Erangipalam bypass in Kozhikode recently. Visuals of the scene, which show the woman stopping a scooty rider from misusing the footpath, have now gone viral on social media.

Soon after the visuals surfaced online, officials from the MVD arrived at Prabhavathi Amma's residence and honoured her with a traditional shawl.

In visuals circulating on social media, the woman is seen confronting scooter rider driving on the footpath and making him move back onto the road.

After the video went viral, she received massive praise and appreciation on social media, which led Kerala's MVD to honour her a...