While, on one hand, the government iterates that the nationwide lockdown is the only way to curb and combat the spread of the virus, on the other hand, the unprecedented experiment of the complete lockdown plays hard on the migrant workers, people from the other state and low and middle-class people as the lockdown has suspended the transportations and closed the borders leaving the people of these categories stranded far away from their homes.

Most of the stranded people have been accommodated by the respective state governments while some of them pick the toughest passage - walking hundreds of kilometers to cross the borders to rejoin with their families and thousands of people have been choosing this way as the last resort in the absence of the transportation channels. A 23-year-old student from Tamil Nadu was one of them. He took the road and started walking towards his home town from Wardha, Maharashtra. 

He was identified as Balasubramani Logesh and he is the native of Namakkal. He was undergoing a training course in the agro-food field and after the Center has imposed a 21 days lockdown, he, along with 30 others had left Wardha. The group has covered 450 kilometers by walking and using the available modes of transport for the past ten days and reached Hyderabad. However, the Hyderabad police and revenue officials had spotted the movement of the group near the Bowenpally market area on Wednesday.

The police have told them about the lockdown and restrictions and they were taken to the temporary accommodation facility and provided food. According to the reports, Logesh went unconscious on midnight and the rest of the group members have informed the police and taken to the hospital. However, he was declared brought dead at the hospital. The police have stated that Logesh and other members have decided to return to Tamil Nadu amid the lockdown.

After his demise, the autopsy was done and the medical officer ascertained that Logesh has died due to a cardiorespiratory arrest. After Telangana Chief Secretary intervened in the matter, the state government and Hyderabad corporation had arranged the ambulance to transport the deceased to his native place for the last rites.

Earlier, a 39-year-old man who was working in a restaurant in Delhi as a home delivery worker had died in Agra on March 28th. He was returning to his hometown of Morena district of Madhya Pradesh from Delhi and when he arrived in Agra, he has covered 200 kilometers by foot after which he was exhausted and died. The autopsy report said that he has died due to the heart attack and the exhaustion of long walk could have triggered his pre-existing heart condition. According to The Wire, India has reported 22 deaths that were related to the nationwide lockdown.