New Delhi: Sixteen years after the tragic Uphaar cinema fire here, the kin of the 59 killed on that faithful day said they "feel cheated" with several offshoots of their legal battle still pending in various courts.
Neelam Krishnamoorthy, who lost both her children in the fire that engulfed the theatre, has been fighting the litigations for the past 16 years with the sole motive of taking it to a logical conclusion.
She said, "I never thought it would take whole my life. Even after 16 years the case has not reached any logical conclusion. We are disappointed. I feel let down by the system."
Krishnamoorthy, who is also the president of the Association of the Victims of Uphaar Tragedy (AVUT), told IANS that their cause has always been subject to the government's apathy. She says that it was "frustrating" that the judiciary was taking more than 16 years to conclude the cases....
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