Barkha dutt husband3/11/2024 “This is not attempted murder this is murder,” said Sujata’s anguished brother, Yogesh, a software engineer. Sujata, a survivor of horrific domestic violence, appears monster-like to her traumatised child. Today he is so scared to see his mother’s disfigured face that he does not want to come near her. He went running from the spot, screaming repeatedly, “ Mummy ko jala diya”. Their six-year-old son was witness to this. The immediate trigger was a quarrel over an extramarital affair that, Sujata says, she confronted her husband with. In early January, Sujata’s husband, Prashant Gupta, doused her with petrol and used his lighter to set her on fire. Worse, in a noisy, perennially outraged, always argumentative nation, there has been next to no attention paid to the lonely battle of the Khullar family. “I don’t know if my babies are safe, the doctors say it’s critical,’’ Sujata Gupta (nee Khullar) told me, through tears, speaking from her house in Mohali, Punjab.Įver since 39-year-old Sujata’s siblings reached out to me, I have felt haunted by the enormity of what has been done to her. There are scarlet-coloured burns down her face an assortment of tubes are connected to an exposed opening in her neck, her arms are draped in surgical bandages, and her wrists can no longer form a fist.
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