Others have been left in the lurch," the officer who requested anonymity said.Apart from bearing the expenses on her treatment in Delhi and Mumbai, the family, devastated by the incident, has received a cash assistance of `2,00,000 from the government besides a driver&Motor bearings Suppliers39;s # job in the J&K State Motor Garages for her father. Then aged 14, Insha also suffered brain haemorrhage, skull fracture and a damage to her nasal, frontal and maxillary bones. Her right eye was completely eviscerated and the left one too was badly affected.As per data collected by local human rights groups, in the post-Wani protests, 1,252 pellet injuries were reported from Baramulla distric with Sopore town accounting for the highest 440 followed by Sheeri (155), Pattan (131), Kreeri (107) Dangiwacha (99), Rohama (47), Kunzer (23) and Tangmarg (6). "When I visited the hospital and saw the girl, my heart came in my mouth (sic) after seeing the condition of the innocent girl who wanted to become a doctor.

Rights group, Amnesty International (AI), has called for a blanket ban on the use of pellet shotgun,Security forces' officials who had been maintaining that the pellet-firing shotgun is "non-lethal" now do admit that it has killed, blinded and maimed people. They are in addition to 1,725 people who figure in the list submitted to the rights commission.Insha was treated for brain infection and underwent surgeries also at the AIIMS, New Delhi, and Aditya Jyot Hospital, Mumbai, but doctors could not restore her eyesight. Her mother Afroza Bano is waiting for a miracle.Suddenly the security forces fired a full burst of pellets at the protesters and some of them hit her in the face and eyes. "We all know that only God can do a miracle. Srinagar: It was not any less than Doomsday, the end of the world for me," said Insha Mushtaq. Many of these, who lost their vision permanently, are now learning Braille. He is our only hope," she said. Kupwara, the other district of north Kashmir, had reported 48 such cases whereas 1,060 pellet injuries were reported in Kulgam, Shopian, Anantnag and Pulwama districts.The meeting had left the chief minister agonised. For many of them, the world is lost and with that they lost interest in life. She was assisted in writing her papers by another girl student appointed for the task by the J&K Board of School Education.

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