Gulati is never mentioned in front of his kids
With their mother no more and father behind bars, the Gulati kids were for the last seven years with their maternal relatives who did everything to ensure the best possible care for the now grown-up teenagers.
Rajesh doesn’t exist for Anupama’s family. His name is never uttered in front of the two children kids in Anupama’s maternal household.
“We never discuss anything about their father or even about the case with the kids...we’re taking great care to bring them up sensitively and try to keep them away from anything (related to Rajesh) that may impact them (adversely),” Anupama’s brother Sujan Kumar Pradhan told HT.
Sujan had waged a legal fight for seven years to get justice for his sister.
In class 6 now, the twins have been living with their maternal grandparents, maternal uncle, aunt and their two children in Delhi.
“The effect (of being bereft of parents) becomes apparent during the parents-teachers meeting at their school,” he said, adding that the kids once innocently asked him if they could call him ‘Papa’.
As the children were born in the US, their American citizenship remain valid.
“Now that Rajesh has been convicted, we will file for the official guardianship of the kids,” Sujan said. During the course of the trial, Rajesh’s family had earlier applied for the custody of the kids but a family court dismissed the plea.