RADHIKA PRASAD MISHRA, 70
He lived alone in a rented house in Dehalwi Darwaza in Faizabad, where he had been living for the last 30 years. His daughters and son-in-laws who lived in Lucknow asked him to move to Lucknow on many occasions. But they always got a no for an answer.
Mishra belonged to Makhdumpur village of Ambedkar Nagar district but came to Faizabad years ago to practise law and stayed on.
“My father-in-law graduated in law from Lucknow University in 1949. We had requested him to stop his practice and stay with us in Lucknow, but he refused to leave Faizabad,” says Mishra’s son-in-law Prakash Pandey, a Trade Tax Officer.
Prakash often came with his wife to visit his father-in-law. Today, he had come to sift through and pack Mishra’s belongings.
Mishra used to visit his daughters in Lucknow every Saturday. “On Saturday he was always in Lucknow and every Sunday evening he would leave for Faizabad so that he could attend court on Monday,” says Mishra’s second son-in-law Sanjay Tewari, a businessman.
Their only regret is that Mishra didn’t take their suggestion and move out of Faizabad.

FAGU RAM, 40
Fagu Ram, a labourer, did not work at the Faizabad court. But on November 23, Ram, had gone to the court to attend the hearing of a case he was fighting in court.
“My father was a labourer. He used to paint houses. Since he had filed a case, he visited Faizabad frequently. He left the village at 6 in the morning to reach the court in time,” says Ram’s 19-year-old son Shivdarshan Raghav.
Raghav heard of his father’s death through a villager of Mumtaznagar. “I could not believe that my father was dead even after seeing his body in the hospital,” he says.

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