Tarishi’s father, Sanjeev Jain, has a garment business in Bangladesh.
Advertisement
Reports received by New Delhi from Dhaka late on Friday indicated the possibility of at least two Indians being among the hostages held by the terrorists.
Tarushi, a student at UC Berkeley, was on vacation.
Tarishi was a recipient of an internship with a Bangladesh bank through the Institute for South Asia Studies at her university in California. “We don’t want her to be cremated in the land where she was brutally murdered”.
The family asked the media not to publish photos of Tarishi Jain.
Tarishi had made a distress call at 1.30 am from the washroom of the Holey Artisan Bakery, which was the last time her family spoke to her. The bakery was also close to Tarishi’s residence in the posh Dhaka neighbourhood of Gulshan.
On the night of the incident, Tarishi along with her friends had gone to the cafe, when terrorists stormed into the place killing all those who could not cite verse from the Quran and sparing others. “We were in touch with him throughout”, he said. With fear and anxiety, we were awaiting that Sanjiv would call us and tell that nothing happened to our darling.
“I immediately thought of my family in Dhaka, but I never imagined that my own family would be affected like this”, she said.
“She told us that gunmen were around and that she had locked herself in one of the toilets of the restaurant”, her uncle Rakesh Mohan Jain told IANS. The relatives were informed about the death after 3 am. Devastated by the loss of Tarishi, her friends and faculty members are still under shock.
Incidentally, her father was planning to visit Bangladesh with his family before Tarishi went back to the U.S. after completing her internship with a Bangladesh Bank.
The Bangladesh army commandos found her lying dead among the corpses of other hostages when they entered the restaurant early Saturday morning and gunned down six terrorists and caught another alive.
Advertisement
Jain was among the hostages who were killed during an hours-long standoff with Bangladesh authorities, Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj said on Twitter. She wrote on Facebook in January, “If I didn’t have ISAB…for real though, do I even have other friends??”. The country is with them in this hour of grief. “MEA has been helpful in arranging our visas”. “My officers are on the job”.
