Hyderabad: Forty-year-old B. Yadaiah Goud from Karmanghat is delighted by Monday's verdict. But even as he smiles, the pain from three years ago has not disappeared. Goud cannot walk, sit or lie down even for a few minutes without a piercing hurt in his spine and right leg.
The Dilsukhnagar blasts have also left him broke and jobless, after numerous treatments and a medical bill that runs up to Rs 4,000 every month. “I live in terrible pain. But I'm happy that justice has been finally served,” says Yadaiah.
But his life will never be normal. “Because of this pain, I can’t work or find a job. The government had given me some money which I used to buy an auto rickshaw. I rent that vehicle out but the earnings are not enough to cover my medical bills and my family's expenses,” he said.
Yadaiah had gone to collect a repaired computer from behind bus station 107 at Dilsukhnagar when one of the bombs went off. “Nails pierced my leg and back. Doctors removed them all, but the injury on my spine never completely healed. I live with that pain now,” he said.
The shrapnel from Dilsukhnagar is still inside 28-year-old Abdul Wasey, too. Mr Wasey has incredibly survived two terror attacks - he was also caught in the 2007 Gokul blasts. Every once a while, the shrapnel from 2013 is ejected from his body and he has undergone seven surgeries so far.
His 60-year-old father, Mirza Abdul Mannan Baig, says, “The death sentence should be a lesson to all others planning such attacks. It is the innocent who suffer. The last two times, my son underwent surgery, the particles were more than one inch in diameter.” Wasey has trouble keeping his job because of the pain. He works as a salesman.
Another blast survivor, V. Srinivas Rao, 52, employed with the film industry here is hoping that the execution date arrives fast. “I hope the procedures are set in place quickly,” he said.
Rao is also seeking economic assistance from the government. He was returning to his home at Malakpet after visiting a friend at Dilsukhnagar. “The blast broke both my legs. I was sitting at the blast site clueless when someone took me to the hospital, where I was operated multiple times,” he said.
