DEEN DAYAL WITH THE BODY OF HIS FATHER RAM DULAR ON THE GHATS OF VARANASI
He was identified by the diary he always carried with him. Ram Dular, a 52-year-old farmer from Chittampur (Mughalsarai) of Chandauli district, went to the Varanasi court on Friday to consult a lawyer on the property rights of his grandchildren.
“My father had gone to court to explore the prospects of filing a case to ensure that my dead sister’s son and daughter got their due share in the property that was sold by their uncles. But the blast snatched him away from us forever,” says Deen Dayal, the elder of Ram Dular’s two sons.
“He was identified by his diary and we were informed of his death later by someone from the district administration over the phone,” says Deen Dayal. “We have got the compensation of Rs 5 lakh from the UP government and will use it with a heavy heart to fulfill our father’s desire of getting justice for our nephews and for building their future,” says Dular’s 14-year-old Ram Dayal.

Om Prakash Pandey, 45
Om Prakash Pandey’s routine rarely changed. Every day, at 9.30 am, he would leave his home at Chotaki Gauhania in Faizabad for the court. “He never returned before 9.30 at night,” says his 23-year-old son Ravi Kant.
But on November 23 he didn’t.
A stamp vendor, a day’s work at the court fetched him about Rs 100. And that was his family’s only earnings. Pandey’s two sons and a daughter are now left to fend for themselves.
Ravi Kant has no idea how he and his family will get by. They are drawing comfort from the presence of their uncle—Pandey’s younger brother Ram Nawal, a senior gardener at Rashtrapati Bhavan—and his wife Sarita.
They are trying to cope with the grief but the fear and anger refuses to go.
“While traveling in buses and trains, I look at everyone with suspicion. Har koi ugrawadi nazar aata hai (Everyone looks like a terrorist),” she says.
Meanwhile, Pandey’s son has just one question: “Why do the terrorists always attack poor people?”

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