Hyderabad, Feb. 12 -- For more than three hours, Zareena Begum, a wife and a mother, ran continuously for her life to reach the nearest road in Oman. She got help from a kind local cab driver who drove her to the Indian Embassy in Muscat where she stayed for two months before returning to Chandrayangutta in Hyderabad.

Her return was marked with festivities and relief, just days before Eid. With her husband Haneef and her children by her side, she could now laugh wholeheartedly, a sigh of relief that her tribulation of nearly three years was finally over.

"India is the best. At least someone will feed us. Khane ke liye tarsate wahan pe," she told Siasat.com, narrating her harrowing experiences as if they were happening right before her e...