Delhi gangrape victim, who died Saturday after valiantly fighting her injuries for 13 days, was cremated away from the public glare within hours of a chartered Air India plane bringing the body back at 3.30 am on Sunday.
Her inconsolable father and two brothers lit the funeral pyre at around 8am in a Dwarka crematorium exactly a fortnight.
She was to marry the friend, a software engineer, in February. “They had made all the wedding preparations and had planned a wedding party in Delhi,” said a close friend.
“She was to get married to the same guy who was attacked on the bus with her,” said another friend she had been shopping with for wedding outfits.
Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi met the grieving family at the IGI airport and extended their condolences.
The mother fainted as the ambulance with her daughter’s body was leaving for the cremation ground.
“Meri bachchi ko mere paas rehne do, usey mujhse door mat karo (don’t take my daughter away from me, let her remain with me)” was the cry of the distraught mother as the body of her young daughter was being taken to the crematorium.
She was rushed to local hospital and was released two hours later.