New Delhi: The Poverty Ridden Family of Delhi Gang Rape Victim, Damini, has been left without any hopes post her death. According to a neighbor, her family was “very poor”.
Her parents had sold a plot of land nearby as well as land in their village in Ballia district of eastern Uttar Pradesh to fund their daughter’s education.
“Now her elder brother, who is preparing for his engineering entrance exams, has no hope to continue his studies. The family had depended on her future career to see them out of their poverty,” Vimla, a neighbour  told IANS.
Ranvir Sirohi, another resident of Mahavir Enclave, told IANS that the victim’s father is a loader at the Delhi airport and has been “saving every penny to make his daughter a doctor”.
In order to see the dream fulfilled, the family did not care to shift to better accommodation, he said.
According to one of the neighbours, after the Dec 16 brutal gang-rape and torture of her daughter, the mother had hardly eaten any food, and her health had deteriorated. She has already been keeping unwell for the past few months, another neighbour told IANS.
Since Saturday evening, a large number of people, mostly neighbours, were assembling outside the family’s home to condole the torture victim’s death.
The house, an unplastered brick structure, comprises two small ordinary rooms, also unplastered. The house belongs to a relative, who stays in one of the rooms while the entire family of the young woman – parents and two brothers – stay in the other room. The family room has bare minimum furnishing. They have been staying there for the past two and a half years.