Hindu Girl Tarishi made a frantic last-ditch call for help, says her uncle

According to Tarishi’s uncle Ramesh Mohan Jain, “on the night of the terror attack, she called me and narrated the entire terrible incident.

“She was in a deep fear and hid in a toilet from where she called me when terrorists were searching for her. She was calling for help but I couldn’t save her”, said Ramesh weeping inconsobly at her funeral here.

Tarishi, 19, a student of the University of California, had gone to the restaurant Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan locality of Dhaka with her friends. She was in Dhaka on a holiday.

Meanwhile, Tarishi’s brother Sanchit performed her last rites at around 4.15pm at a cremation ground at Sukhrali village near IFFCO Chowk as family members suffered in silence.

Earlier, the mortal remains of the 19-year-old student of University of California in Berkeley, US, where she studied Economics, were brought from Dhaka to Delhi where her family members, Minister of State for Power and Coal Piyush Goyal was present. Goyal received the body.

The body was then taken to Gurgaon DLF phase-1 F Block community centre where it was kept for two hours to enable an estimated 200 people, including Goyal and Haryana Education Minister Rambilas Sharma, to pay their respects.