Photographed wearing a blood-spattered kurta, his face scalded by acid, Mohammed Vakil Mansoori’s was one of the pictures that captured the brutalities of the 2020 Delhi carnage.
A resident of Shiv Vihar in northeast Delhi, the 50-year-old had initially lost his vision for 13 months. After five operations, he is now able to see shapes, but only through his right eye – with a much smaller, static pupil. “I can see somebody is sitting in front of me. I can count currency notes. I can’t read yet,” he says, sitting in his newly built house. And while his injuries heal, the wheels of justice are yet to move for him.
