Gurgaon residents Rachna and Himanshi share a tragic connection, both losing their young husbands to terrorism shortly after their weddings. Rachna's husband, Rupin Katyal, died in the 1999 IC-814 hijacking, while Himanshi's husband, Lt Vinay Narwal, was killed in the recent Pahalgam terror attack.
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