<p> His face has lined overnight and he looks haggard, but he keeps a brave front before his family. The façade, however, shatters when he recalls his last meeting with his 23-year-old daughter, who was brutally gang raped on a cold December night here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“I clearly remember our last meeting. She was lying on the (Safdarjung) Hospital bed. She gestured me to come near and asked me whether I had eaten. When I nodded, she told me to sleep. She then held my hand and kissed it,” said the distraught father of trainee physiotherapist.<br /><br />“I can never forget that moment because it was the last time I got a chance to talk to her. Then her condition worsened, and she was later on the same day flown to Singapore. I never got a chance again,” he said as tears rolled down his cheeks.<br /><br />Sitting in his modest two-bedroom house in south-west Delhi, the 53-year-old, kept his eyes fixed on the photograph of his daughter, who died in a Singapore hospital on December 29 last year, 13 days after she was gang raped in a moving bus. Their life has come to a standstill. But he now hopes for justice. “I want the six rapists to hang. Nothing less will be acceptable,” he said. <br /><br />The unplastered brick house, in which they have been living for 25 years since he left his hometown at Ballia in Uttar Pradesh, seems empty to them.<br /><br />“Oh God! Why did I ever come to Delhi?” said the teary-eyed father, who works as a porter at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. Recalling that fateful day, he said he sensed something was wrong when he found his daughter had switched off her mobile phone.<br /><br />“She had cooked food for us. After lunch, I left for work. She also left and told her mother that she will be back by evening. When she did not return by 8 pm, we got worried,” he added. <br /><br />“But after 9 pm when we found her mobile was switched off, we felt something wrong had happened because she never used to do that. As soon as I returned home at night, I received a call from Safdarjang Hospital regarding the incident,” he said.</p>
<p> His face has lined overnight and he looks haggard, but he keeps a brave front before his family. The façade, however, shatters when he recalls his last meeting with his 23-year-old daughter, who was brutally gang raped on a cold December night here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“I clearly remember our last meeting. She was lying on the (Safdarjung) Hospital bed. She gestured me to come near and asked me whether I had eaten. When I nodded, she told me to sleep. She then held my hand and kissed it,” said the distraught father of trainee physiotherapist.<br /><br />“I can never forget that moment because it was the last time I got a chance to talk to her. Then her condition worsened, and she was later on the same day flown to Singapore. I never got a chance again,” he said as tears rolled down his cheeks.<br /><br />Sitting in his modest two-bedroom house in south-west Delhi, the 53-year-old, kept his eyes fixed on the photograph of his daughter, who died in a Singapore hospital on December 29 last year, 13 days after she was gang raped in a moving bus. Their life has come to a standstill. But he now hopes for justice. “I want the six rapists to hang. Nothing less will be acceptable,” he said. <br /><br />The unplastered brick house, in which they have been living for 25 years since he left his hometown at Ballia in Uttar Pradesh, seems empty to them.<br /><br />“Oh God! Why did I ever come to Delhi?” said the teary-eyed father, who works as a porter at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. Recalling that fateful day, he said he sensed something was wrong when he found his daughter had switched off her mobile phone.<br /><br />“She had cooked food for us. After lunch, I left for work. She also left and told her mother that she will be back by evening. When she did not return by 8 pm, we got worried,” he added. <br /><br />“But after 9 pm when we found her mobile was switched off, we felt something wrong had happened because she never used to do that. As soon as I returned home at night, I received a call from Safdarjang Hospital regarding the incident,” he said.</p>