Haseena, a 18-yr old B.Com. student, was a computer professional in Bengaluru. In her first hear of graduation itself, she got a job in a software centre run by a former Indian Air Force employee, Joseph Rodriguez.
Things turned nasty, when the software centre incurred heavy losses and Haseena found herself a new job. This was unacceptable to Joseph and he tried every possible way to bring Haseena back to her firm.
But despite all his efforts, when Haseena declined his offer of joining him back again, it hurt his male chauvinist ego.
On April 20,999, Haseena left her house at Jalahalli (Bengaluru North-East) around 8am, and as soon as she reached the office gate, a motorcycle-borne man splashed the liquid contents of a plastic jug on me and sped away, destroying her life forever.
Haseena not only just lost her eyesight in this attack, but it also damaged her entire body, and she was bed ridden for nealry 10 years.
In fact even today also, she cannot walk without support and cannot sit straight.
This horrifying attack made a hole in her head, her nose and one of her earlobes were dissolved together, one side of her neck is welded to the shoulder, and her fingers got fused together.
Laxmi
Laxmi was attacked with acid by a spurned lover who was 17 years older to her, in 2005, when she was merely 15 years old.
She was attacked in the crowded Central Delhi area in daytime, where the spurned lover, along with his brother's girlfriend, approached Laxmi, flung her and threw acid on her face
This attack disfigured her face, ears, hands and chest. The doctors had to remove the entire skin from her face.
Till now Laxmi has undergone 7 surgeries, and still need four more surgeries before she can go for a plastic surgery.
Though the acid attack left numerous scars on her body, but it could not scar her soul, her spirit.
Rather than shutting her self in a room and hiding from the world for something she wasn't fault at for, she decided to come forward and fight against acid attacks.
