<p>The Delhi "braveheart" who died Saturday came from a humble family originally from Uttar Pradesh and took tuitions to pay for her school and college fees.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Born into a family from Ballia, the young woman, family friends said, was hard working and desired to forge ahead in life.<br /><br />The sources close to the family said they moved to the national capital a quarter century ago. It settled in a middle-class neighbourhood in southwest Delhi where she was born 23 years ago.<br /><br />The girl’s father, seeing her brilliance in academics, took loans to finance her higher studies.<br /><br />After her education, she went to Dehradun to train as a physiotherapist. She returned to Delhi and started as an intern in a private hospital in north Delhi.<br /><br />As she was the eldest in the family, her family was convinced that her sucess in academics would inspire her two younger brothers too. <br /><br />"Like any family they dreamt of their daughter getting a better job and a better salary," a source said.<br /><br />The dreams were shattered when she became victim to a gang-rape Dec 16, the beginning of a 13-day agonising struggle for life that ended in her death in Singapore Saturday. <br /></p>
<p>The Delhi "braveheart" who died Saturday came from a humble family originally from Uttar Pradesh and took tuitions to pay for her school and college fees.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Born into a family from Ballia, the young woman, family friends said, was hard working and desired to forge ahead in life.<br /><br />The sources close to the family said they moved to the national capital a quarter century ago. It settled in a middle-class neighbourhood in southwest Delhi where she was born 23 years ago.<br /><br />The girl’s father, seeing her brilliance in academics, took loans to finance her higher studies.<br /><br />After her education, she went to Dehradun to train as a physiotherapist. She returned to Delhi and started as an intern in a private hospital in north Delhi.<br /><br />As she was the eldest in the family, her family was convinced that her sucess in academics would inspire her two younger brothers too. <br /><br />"Like any family they dreamt of their daughter getting a better job and a better salary," a source said.<br /><br />The dreams were shattered when she became victim to a gang-rape Dec 16, the beginning of a 13-day agonising struggle for life that ended in her death in Singapore Saturday. <br /></p>