New Delhi, May 26 -- A tribal woman in Chhattisgarh carried her 90-year-old mother-in-law nearly four kilometres on her back through scorching heat to complete a bank formality so the elderly woman could collect a Rs.500 monthly pension, according to a Times of India report.

This incident was hauntingly similar to one reported a month ago, wherein an Odisha man carried his sister's skeleton to the bank, to prove that she had indeed died.

Sukhmaniya, a woman in her late fifties from Jangalpara village in the Mainpat block of Chhattisgarh's Surguja district, had no vehicle, no money for transport and no other option. Her 90-year-old mother-in-law was too frail to walk. The local bank had stopped delivering the elderly woman's monthly pens...