On the street of insecurity!

HOMELESS Rape victim’s mother is now worried about the safety of her second daughter

Completely broken by her recent trauma, Gomti Nagar rape victim’s mother is now scared about the safety of her second daughter.

LUCKNOW: The widow, in her thirties, is completely broken by her recent trauma.

Having lost her youngest child, who was brutally raped and murdered recently, she is still shocked and does not know how to react.

Minister of state SP Yadav, who visited her on Wednesday promised help and some social workers are assuring her justice. But her daughter is gone and only three of the five-member family are left behind: elder daughter, 10, and a son, 8.

The family lives under a temporary polythene shade on the roadside and sleeps in the open. The widow is the lone breadearner of the family.

Surrounded by women of nearby slums, a couple of women activists and media persons, she said, “We live under the open sky. Today my younger daughter has fallen prey to a sexual predator, tomorrow it can be my elder daughter. Who will take the responsibility?”

Recalling the terrifying night, she said, “I never realised when my daughter, sleeping right next to me, went missing. I woke up at around 2am and found that she was not there. I searched for her and then went to the police. I also went to call my sister, who lives near Chinhat and when we returned, we found my daughter’s body on the street. She was naked. Her body was badly stabbed and her frock lay at a distance. The injury marks were so prominent on her body that her skin was hardly visible. It appeared as if she had been pinned,

TALE OF HORROR She was naked. Her body was badly stabbed and her frock lay at a distance. The injury marks were so prominent on her body that her skin was hardly visible. It appeared as if she had been pinned, scratched and injured brutally with various objects. VICTIM’S MOTHER

scratched and injured brutally with various objects.”

Having lost her husband three years ago, the women earns her living by selling grinding stone (sil batta) door to door and in summers, she sets up her khus stall near the Mithaiwala crossing in Gomti Nagar.

“Selling khus gets me R40- 50 and stone work is not much in demand. I do dusting and cleaning in the bank on the Mithaiwala crossing that earns me R1,500 per month,” she told HT.

Her children are also in a state of shock. They are scared of what they saw.

“She will never come back. She has been killed,” said the victim’’s sister, who is yet to understand the complexities of her sister’s death. The brother is unaware. All he knows is something big has happened.

His sister is gone and his mother is not well.

He is waiting for the normal routine.