Acid attack survivor Kafi tops class 12 with 95.6%, dreams of becoming IAS officer

Blinded in an acid attack at the age of 3, Chandigarh’s Kafi scored 95.6% in her Class 12 board examination.

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00:00This acid attack survivor scored 95.6% in class 12 boards and topped her school.

00:08Chandigarh's Kafi was just 3 years old when her three neighbours attacked her with acid during the festival of Holi in 2011.

00:15They had some jealousy, I mean we had little good financial condition so maybe we had a very lovely relationship before that.

00:23The incident occurred when she had gone to her native village of Budhana in Haryana's Hisar district to celebrate the festival.

00:29The assault driven by jealousy left her with severe burns on her face and arms and cost her her eyesight.

00:35Despite the trauma, Kafi refused to give up.

00:38With the help of audiobooks, she continued her studies and scored 95.2% in her class 10 exams in 2023.

00:45Kafi shared, the doctor saved my life but not my eyesight.

00:49She had undergone initial treatment at Ames Delhi where her family was told that her vision could not be restored.

00:54Her educational journey began in her village but took a defining turn when she joined Chandigarh's Institute for the Blind in class 6.

01:01Since then, she had consistently excelled in academics, stopping her class each year.

01:05Kafi also shared her hobbies with us.

01:08I like to watch cricket.

01:10What's your favourite player?

01:11Pirat Kohli.

01:12Her father, a contractual pian at the mini secretariat in Chandigarh, expressed immense pride in her accomplishments.

01:19However, justice remains elusive.

01:21They were my neighbours and actually they were convicted for only two years.

01:25Now, we filed a case in Haryana Punjab High Court in 2017 but it was put in pending by the judges in 2019.

01:35Since now, we didn't get any update about it.

01:38Kafi aspires to pursue a political science honours degree from Delhi University and dreams of becoming an Indian administrative service officer.

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