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Wednesday, Apr 27, 2005

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Women bodies unmoved

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Four days after a horrific acid attack scarred her face forever, 15-year-old Lakshmi only has her family for support. With most prominent women's organisations in the Capital choosing to stay away from the girl who was attacked in broad daylight allegedly by her jilted friend, it seems that "representatives of women's causes" in the city still have a lot to learn from their Mumbai counterparts.

Unable to come to terms with the incident that their child might never fully recover, her parents are too traumatised to speak. Battling a system with the scales of justice tilted against the victim, Lakshmi and her family have unfortunately learnt a bitter lesson that they living in the wrong quarters of Golf Links probably makes them invisible.

"I don't want to speak to anyone. I don't know anything and I am just concentrating on the problem that I have. I am a poor man and all I really want to do is to ensure that my daughter gets all right soon. I don't want to speak to anyone and expect nothing," said Lakshmi's father.

While the parents might have been shocked into silence after the incident, the women's organisation have also lapsed into similar silence. The lone exception has been the National Women's for Commission that issued a statement condemning the incident. It was only late in the evening that a member of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) finally visited Lakshmi.

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