Click to play videoNew Delhi: The photographs of their children are what kept the Sawhneys going through their darkest hours during the last 10 years of their fight for justice. Their 21-year-old daughter, Tarika died in the Uphaar Cinema fire in 1997.
A heartbroken Naveen Sawhney, who always wished that he had spent more time with his daughter, now hopes to see the guilty brought to book.
“I am hopeful that our fight will now show results,” says Sawhney.
Vikas Lal was only 15 years old when he lost his father Kishan Lal. The fire at Uphaar snuffed his youth out. He gave up studying to look after his widowed mother and four younger siblings. Hours become days as he struggled to eke out a living through his tent house. After seven years of court visits, he stopped after he collapsed in court suffering an epileptic fit.
"It does not matter. My father is lost,” says Vikas.
Fifty nine people lost their lives in the fire that broke out at Uphaar Cinema because of a faulty transformer. The Association of Victims of Uphaar Tragedy had lodged an FIR alleging death due to negligence against Gopal and Sushil Ansal, the owners of the film hall.
A Delhi court will on Wednesday deliver judgement on a criminal case of negligence by the cinema management.
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