Brave mum and daughter are STILL living with man who scarred them in horrific acid attack for heartbreaking reason

A mum and daughter in India have the revealed the heartbreaking reason they are still living with the man who scarred them for a life in a horrifying acid attack .

Inderjeet Mahour, 60, attacked his own wife Geeta Mahour, 40, and two daughters Neetu, then three, and 18-month-old Krishna, more than 25 years ago.

He had allegedly threatened his spouse on previous occasions: "Don’t mess with me or I’ll ruin your face."

Geeta suffered horrendous injuries, while Neetu, now 26, was left blind after acid was poured on them as they slept in Agra, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India.

Krishna tragically died after contracting an infection following her hospital release.

Although Geeta initially reported her husband to police, she ended up forgiving him after worrying about how she would raise her children alone.

She says she was extremely poor, faced "a lot of pressure" from society and was even asked by "disgusted" neighbours to leave the area.

She and Inderjeet went on to have another daughter eight years later, and today she still shares his bed and cooks him dinner every night.

Geeta said: "After I recovered from my injuries I was worried how I’d raise my kids alone so I decided to forgive him and I returned to him."

The brave mum - who was apparently targeted by Inderjeet when he was drunk - claimed her husband still becomes abusive when he drinks.

"For some years he was nice to me," she said.

"But eventually he started drinking and gambling again.

"Even today when he gets drunk he threatens to kill us. But nothing bothers me now. I cry every night for the misery we are forced to live but this is our life."

Geeta's daughter, Neetu, has lost almost all of her sight following the attack. But the courageous woman refuses to dwell on what her father did to her.

Neetu received burns on both of her arms and her eyes (Image: Cover Asia Press / Tanzeel Ur Rehman)

"I can hardly remember anything about the day," Neetu said. "But I have forgiven him. I’ve never asked my mother why are we with him? I never get angry."

Geeta was reportedly living back with her mother due to cracks in their marriage, when Inderjeet attacked.

She said: "I was at my mother’s place with my two younger daughters when the incident happened.

"My eldest daughter Rekha was at my in-laws house. We were sleeping in the courtyard when he quietly got inside and poured acid on us.

"Even though I didn’t see him pour the acid, I knew it was him because he often used to threaten me: ‘Don’t mess with me or I’ll ruin your face’.

The family still live together (Image: Cover Asia Press / Tanzeel Ur Rehman)

"I remember screaming and screaming, my girls screaming and my mother running out. She called the police and we were admitted to hospital for three to four months."

Geeta reported her husband to the police and he was arrested the following day.

But once Geeta and her girls were discharged from hospital, she says life quickly got a lot worse.

"I returned to my mother’s house after we were discharged from hospital but my mother had no money,’ Geeta said.

"My father had died when I was just eight and now my mother had to take care of my younger brother and younger sister as well as me and my daughters. We had no money. My mother and brother worked just to buy us our medicines."

Tragically, Geeta’s youngest daughter, Krishna, who was just 18 months old at the time, died of infection within a month of leaving hospital.