She does not remember anything that happened before April 6, 2015. A piece of her skull lies in a zip-bag in her house to be reattached with surgery, but Marilyn Remedios has not been compensated for the accident which left her in this state.


Marilyn Remedios at her Bandra home. Pic/Sameer Markande 

With the Bombay High Court ruling on May 20 that the right to good roads is a fundamental right of citizens and that road accident victims are entitled to compensation, the need for a policy by the BMC to compensate road accident victims has come to the fore.