<p>A 23-year-old woman acid attack victim was brought to the national capital on Monday and cremated with state honours, in northwest Delhi’s Narela on Monday.<br /><br />She had succumbed to her injuries on Sunday at a Mumbai hospital.<br /><br />Preeti Rathi, a former resident of Narela, who was working as a nurse in a defence hospital in Mumbai, was cremated around 5 pm after day-long protests by her family and local residents demanding a CBI probe into her murder. <br /><br />“She was cremated only after a senior government official assured that our demands would be met,” said Amar Singh Rathi, the victim’s father and a foreman at the Delhi Government-run electricity plant Bhakra Beas Management Board. <br />State honours</p>.<p>He said apart from the inquiry by the top investigation agency, he sought a government job for a family member and laying his daughter to rest with state honours.<br /><br />Preeti’s body arrived in Delhi at around 7.45 am on Monday. The family members refused to perform the last rites until a CBI probe was ordered.<br /><br />They marched with her coffin-borne body to G T Karnal Road from Narela. Police intervened when they disrupted traffic on the highway.<br /><br />The family cremated her at 5 pm after an assurance that their demands would be met by the area’s sub-divisional magistrate.<br /><br />Some unidentified assailants had thrown acid on Preeti after she alighted from the New Delhi-Mumbai Garib Rath Express in Mumbai on May 2 morning. She had gone to Mumbai to report for her nursing job in a defence hospital.</p>.<p>She died of injuries at a private hospital in Mumbai on Sunday. <br /><br />A family member said they had met Maharashtra home minister R R Patil, who declared a compensation of Rs 2 lakh to the victim’s kin and assured that the case would be handed over to the CBI soon.<br /></p>
<p>A 23-year-old woman acid attack victim was brought to the national capital on Monday and cremated with state honours, in northwest Delhi’s Narela on Monday.<br /><br />She had succumbed to her injuries on Sunday at a Mumbai hospital.<br /><br />Preeti Rathi, a former resident of Narela, who was working as a nurse in a defence hospital in Mumbai, was cremated around 5 pm after day-long protests by her family and local residents demanding a CBI probe into her murder. <br /><br />“She was cremated only after a senior government official assured that our demands would be met,” said Amar Singh Rathi, the victim’s father and a foreman at the Delhi Government-run electricity plant Bhakra Beas Management Board. <br />State honours</p>.<p>He said apart from the inquiry by the top investigation agency, he sought a government job for a family member and laying his daughter to rest with state honours.<br /><br />Preeti’s body arrived in Delhi at around 7.45 am on Monday. The family members refused to perform the last rites until a CBI probe was ordered.<br /><br />They marched with her coffin-borne body to G T Karnal Road from Narela. Police intervened when they disrupted traffic on the highway.<br /><br />The family cremated her at 5 pm after an assurance that their demands would be met by the area’s sub-divisional magistrate.<br /><br />Some unidentified assailants had thrown acid on Preeti after she alighted from the New Delhi-Mumbai Garib Rath Express in Mumbai on May 2 morning. She had gone to Mumbai to report for her nursing job in a defence hospital.</p>.<p>She died of injuries at a private hospital in Mumbai on Sunday. <br /><br />A family member said they had met Maharashtra home minister R R Patil, who declared a compensation of Rs 2 lakh to the victim’s kin and assured that the case would be handed over to the CBI soon.<br /></p>
