“Then her condition worsened, and she was later on the same day flown to Singapore. I never got a chance again,” he said as tears rolled down his cheeks.
Sitting in his modest two-bedroom house in southwest Delhi, the 53-year-old, throughout his interaction with IANS, kept his eyes fixed on the photograph of his daughter, who died in a Singapore hospital Dec 29 last year, 13 days after she was gang-raped in a moving bus.
Life for the family has come to a standstill. But the father now hopes for justice.
“I want the six rapists to hang. Nothing less will be acceptable,” he told IANS.
The unplastered brick house, in which they has been living for 25 years since he left his hometown in Ballia in Uttar Pradesh, seems empty to them, as the young woman, who was a first-born, is no more to light up their lives.
“Oh God! Why did I ever come to Delhi?” said the teary-eyed father, who works as a porter at the Indira Gandhi International Airport.
Recalling the fateful day on Dec 16 night, he said he sensed something was wrong when he found his daughter had switched off her mobile phone.
“She had cooked food for us. After lunch, I left for work. She also left and told her mother that she will be back by evening. When she did not return by 8 p.m., we got worried.
“But after 9 p.m. when we found her mobile was switched off, we felt something wrong had happened because she never used to do that. As soon as I returned home at night, I received a call from Safdarjang Hospital regarding the incident,” he said.
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