Jessica Lall's Sister Sabrina Lall Passes Away After Prolonged Illness

The famous Bollywood movie "No One Killed Jessica" was an adaptation of Jessica Lall's murder cases and Sabrina's fight for getting justice for her sister. 

Sabrina Lall sister of Jessica Lall. (File Photo/ Getty)

New Delhi: Sabrina Lall, who fought a long battle to give justice to her sister Jessica Lall, passed away on Sunday evening after a prolonged illness. According to reports, Sabrina, who was in her early fifties, was ailing for a long and was suffering from cirrhosis of the liver.

Her last rites will be performed on Monday.

"She was not keeping well and had been in and out of the hospital. Yesterday, her condition deteriorated at home and we took her to hospital. Today, in the evening, she passed away," her brother Ranjith Lall told news agency PTI over the phone.

Last year, while speaking to the news agency, Sabrina has talked about her plans to start a foundation in memory of her sister to aid women in similar situations to get justice.

She had said that she has forgiven her sister's killer, Manu Sharma, who walked out of jail last year after the Delhi Sentence Review Board recommended his premature release.

Siddharth Vashisht, better known as Manu Sharma, was serving a life sentence in Tihar Jail here for the 1999 murder.

Jessica Lall was murdered in 1999 at an upscale restaurant in the national capital. The famous Bollywood movie "No One Killed Jessica" was an adaptation of Jessica Lall's murder cases and Sabrina's fight for getting justice for her sister. 

Calling Jessica her closest friend, Sabrina had said she missed her sister's presence in her life every day.

"She was jovial and positive in life. It is not just birthdays and death anniversaries that I miss her, it is every day. I have lots of pictures of hers in my home and not that I need them to miss her, but they are there to remind me of her," Sabrina had told PTI. 

(With inputs from PTI)