Lucknow, July 2: From a bangle manufacturer in Firozabad's Suhag Nagar area to an employee in a Delhi garment manufacturing company to a battery exporter in Dhaka, Sanjiv Jain has come a long way.

But after 12 years of running a successful business in Bangladesh, the 52-year-old father of Tarishi Jain, killed in the terrorist strike on a Dhaka cafe, was today seriously thinking of packing up and returning to the safety of his motherland.

A hundred doubts kept playing on Sanjiv's mind, however: Was folding up his business and returning to Firozabad the right thing to do? Who would guarantee the safety of his family and himself in India?

"I have talked to him many times today. He and his entire family are homesick and want to come back," Rajeev Jain, the older brother of Sanjiv, told The Telegraph over phone from Firozabad, some 300km west of Lucknow.

"But he was also asking me, in sheer grief, which place on earth was safe. I don't think he should leave his flourishing business there when the entire world is facing the same problem of terrorism. But in any case, we will sit together and take a decision."

Rajeev, 60, said the family had been in the bangle-manufacturing business before Sanjiv took a job with a Delhi garment company when he was 28. He would often travel to Bangladesh on official work. He moved to Dhaka a few years ago.

Rajeev, who is still in the bangle business, said both Tarishi and her elder brother Sanchit were studying abroad. "I don't remember the names of the college or the university. But my brother had told me they were studying in America."

Tarishi was at the University of California, Berkeley. Sanchit is in Canada.

Sanjiv and his wife, Tulika, had visited Firozabad twice last year - once when his mother, Prem Lata, passed away in October and again during Diwali in the second week of November. Tarishi and Sanchit had not accompanied them.

"It was never Sanjiv's intention to settle in Dhaka forever. But he used to say that he needed money to give his children a very good education," said Rajeev.

"Our family is very big. Many of us would like to travel to Dhaka to be with Sanjiv and Tulika if the Indian government cannot arrange to bring Tarishi's body here. Sanjiv wants to perform her last rites here."

Visit to Ara

Tarishi had visited her maternal uncle's home in Bihar's Ara some 10 months ago along with mother Tulika, who hails from there, adds our Bihar bureau.

Her uncle, Anshu Jain, said: "Tarishi had gone to Dhaka on a family visit and had plans to come to Ara from there. However, at the last moment, she said she would be going to Delhi from Dhaka and cancelled the Ara leg of the trip. She had come to Ara to visit us around 10 months ago."