We are gone... completely

Anand Holla

Richard says he has no idea what happened suddenly
For the four odd hours that Maria Monica Susairaj's elder brother Richard wandered around the Esplanade court for her court hearing on Thursday, his face remained taut with stress. He excused himself from conversation with mediapersons.

Richard, wearing a blue T-shirt and brown trousers, wandered aimlessly in the court corridors when he was not talking to his lawyer Murthi Acharya. He tried hard to ignore curious mediapersons trying to chat him up. Sitting in the court canteen with a fruitcake and a Maaza, Richard finally opened up to Mumbai Mirror. "I can't understand anything right now. We can only wait... see if what happens next will show us some way," Richard said, sipping his drink listlessly. He quickly added that his parents haven't yet come to Mumbai, wary of the media's hawk eye on the Susairaj family's moves. Talking of the turmoil and confusion plaguing the Susairaj family, Richard said, "For now, we are gone... completely. We have no idea what happened, and that too all of a sudden. The situation is full of turmoil and we are waiting to see what options come before us as days pass by."

With a black bag full of clothes and other essentials that he wanted to give to Maria slung around his shoulder, Richard said he has put up at a Malad hotel "for a few days now". He refused to talk about Maria or the Neeraj Grover murder. "I don't think it is correct to say anything about Maria now. I had spoken to her a few days before the incident, but we wouldn't talk too often over phone," said Richard, who is in the construction business at Mysore.

The Esplanade court has remanded Maria and her boyfriend Jerome Matthew to police custody until June 3.
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