At Tarishi Jain’s funeral, which took place in Gurugram’s Sukhrali village, her inconsolable mother told the media that Tarishi was killed because she was an Indian, The Telegraph reported.
Tell everyone the truth, the truth is that she was killed because she was an Indian.Tarishi’s Mother
At the cremation today in Gurugram, 1,800 km from Gulshan in Bangladesh’s capital, the mother, grieving the loss of her daughter, was mostly speaking to herself and friends and family who gathered around her.
Why my Taru? She was a good girl. What did we do wrong that my Taru had to die like this? Don’t call her a martyr, she wanted to live. I was just some distance away when my Taru was being hunted down. Why didn’t I do something?Tarishi’s Mother
Sanjiv, Tarishi’s father and Sanchit, her brother who performed his sister’s last rites around 5pm on the cremation ground at Sukhrali village in Gurgaon, tried to hold back their emotions.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who herself lost her husband and mother-in-law to violence, wrote to Tarishi’s parents, expressing her deepest condolences in this hour of grief.
I was really pained after hearing about your daughter’s death. This was a tragic incident and it was against humanity. This kind of violence is a blot to the whole world community. Those who kill people in cold blood can’t be well-wishers of anybody. We have to build an atmosphere against this.Sonia Gandhi, Congress President
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