Machine ate up my child…their carelessness killed her — Mother

“The machine ate up my child…their carelessness has killed her,” she says.

Three weeping relatives who sit next to Geeta say that the woman is completely traumatised by what she saw. “To lose a child to illness is different. To see her die because of someone’s carelessness is another,” says the Jyotsana’s paternal aunt, Ruby Satwani, who lives in Mathura.

Geeta told the Union Civil Aviation Minister Sharad Yadav that theinternational airport is worse than a dharamshala. Eye-witnesses said that the minister listened silently to the wailing mother and announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh. “All they say is that this has never happened before. Will they always wait before things go wrong and people die?” says Satwani.

For Jyotsana’s parents Dharmendra and Geeta – textile exporters based in Dubai for the past 18 years – it has been a second disastrous homecoming. The couple’s younger daughter died three years ago of an illness, when they had come to India for the marriage of Dharmendra’s younger brother.

Today again the family had landed at Delhi to attend the wedding of another Jyotsana’s uncles (Rajesh) at Jodhpur and tragedy struck. “My daughter-in-law cannot conceive again,’ says the child’s grandfather Parmananand.

“She has broken down completely,” says a relative, wiping his tears off. “What else would happen to a mother who sees her child die?” says another.

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