Blueline mows down biker

Harsh Vardhan Sahni / TNN / Sep 13, 2007, 02:59 IST

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55-year-old Anwar Ahmed became yet another victim of Delhi's Blueline buses on Wednesday morning.

NEW DELHI: 55-year-old Anwar Ahmed became yet another victim of Delhi's Blueline buses on Wednesday morning. Ahmed died when when his bike was hit by the bus, throwing him under the rear wheel of the bus. He was immediately rushed to AIIMS where he was declared brought dead.
"The bus has been impounded at the Sangam Vihar police station and all efforts are on to nab the driver, who is still at large," said a senior police official.
According to the police, the accident took place around 9:15 am, near the Tigri Gurdwara on Mehaural-Gurgaon road, when a blueline bus, plying on route number 717 between Badarpur and Shahbad Mehamudpur, hit Ahmed's bike, causing him to fall to the left and come under the rear wheel of the bus. The driver of the bus fled from the spot, leaving the bus behind, which was later impounded by the police.
The family of the deceased was shocked to hear about the accident. When Ahmed left home for work in Gurgaon, where he worked as a pattern master for a cloth export firm, little did his wife and four children realise this was the last they were seeing of him. "We still haven't informed our mother about his death, all she knows is that he's had an accident. We don't know how she'll come to terms with the reality when she hears the sad news," said Ahmed's eldest son, Israr Ahmed(26), who works as an electronic appliance designer in Gurgaon and is in his 3rd year of engineering at Jamia Milia Islamia University.

Israr is Ahmed's eldest son, followed by Istkhar (23), who is pursuing his BA through correspondence and also working in an outlet of a grocerry chain store. His third child, Izhar(21) is pursuing his B.Com degree while the youngest, 16 year old Shaheda Parveen is a student of class XI. Izhar said, "I'd last talked to my father on Wednesday morning, when he had asked me to iron his office clothes, before going in for a bath. I couldn't even see him off, when he left for work around 8:45 am. Later, I received the news of the accident news in form of a call from my maternal uncle Abid. Uncle Abid had been called up by some bystander, who had looked up the number in my father's the mobile phone."
Israr, infuriated at the buses' continued killing spree, said, "These Bluelines should never have been put back on the roads. The speed governors and red security certificates serve no purpose."

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