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A late closure is how many victims who lost family members or sustained injuries in the 1993 serial blasts described Wednesday’s decision of the Supreme Court.
“Finally, there is justice, though it is late. This decision should have been taken within two years of Yakub Memon’s return. If it had, the later blasts would never had happened,” said Kirti Ajmera, 58, who was injured at Bombay Stock Exchange in 1993. “Everyone was talking on behalf of the accused the whole week. I hope people will now raise their voice of us victims, who haven’t even got the Rs 5,000 compensation. I have undergone 40 operations and spent more than Rs 20 lakh.”
“A good thing has happened,” said Vinduri Mirchandani, who has just celebrated her 100th birthday. She was injured in the blast at Century Bazaar. “We got almost nothing from the government, but at least the judiciary has not let us down,” she told her daughter Maya.
At Nariman Point, where a bomb had ripped the car park of the Air India building, Himmat Karte, 52, a guard, spent Wednesday reminiscing about his colleague Aruna Piketi, a security officer. “Piketi would have felt a little better. She passed away two years ago, but everyone at Air India still feels indebted to her.”
Piketi had shooed away the explosives-laden car from the tunnel pass at Air India building where it was initially parked. “By forcing the car to move away, she saved many lives. She was strict,” Karte said.
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