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Won't return to Mumbai, says victim's family
Having lost his daughter to the Maximum City, Amarsingh Rathi says his family will not go back to Mumbai because of the ''bad memories'' attached to the city.
Having lost his daughter to the Maximum City, Amarsingh Rathi says his family will not go back to Mumbai because of the ''bad memories'' attached to the city.
Shattered over the brutal death of his daughter, Rathi says all that he hopes now is to see the perpetrators of the dastardly attack on his daughter being brought to justice.
He blames an ''indifferent'' Government Railway Police for the accused easily escaping from the Bandra Terminus -- where acid was thrown at his daughter Preeti.
"Government Railway Police did not do enough to crack the case. The person they have arrested, Pawankumar Gehalon, is not the real accused. The thin police presence at Bandra Terminus on May 2, when the incident took place, could also have led to the arrest of the accused. But it was not the case either," said Rathi.
The Rathi family is demanding a CBI probe into the incident. On Saturday -- the day Preeti died -- Maharashtra home minister RR Patil had assured them that their demand of a CBI probe would be considered. Patil had told the Rathi family that he would take up their demand with the Union home minister and communicate the decision to them by Tuesday.
Meanwhile in Delhi, leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj on Monday rapped the Maharashtra government for handing out a ''grossly inadequate'' and ''insulting'' compensation of R2 lakh to the Rathi family.
"The compensation of mere two lakh rupees by Maharashtra Government is grossly inadequate. It is adding insult to the injury," Swaraj said on her Twitter account.
"The acid attack on Preeti Rathi and her death is very painful. Unfortunately, the culprit is still at large," she tweeted.
Preeti was cremated in New Delhi on Monday with full state honours.
