No leash On Killer Wheels

For an hour after five-year-old Ajoy Mistry was mowed down by a speeding bus, his parents, uncle and aunt were on the road, crying inconsolably. The family, which had struggled hard for a roof on their head, doted on Ajoy as the hope of their future.
Ajoy's father, Monoj Mistry, was unconscious for a full 15 minutes after the accident and kept cursing the driver for killing his only child."I am an uneducated man. I could not do anything in life. But I had a dream for my son. I even put him in an English-medium school. Why did he have to die? Why didn't God take me? Ajoy was so innocent. Why did he have to die so horribly," he said, in between bouts of senselessness.
Ajoy studied in the nursery section of Holy Child School. His mother, Kakoli, could not stop crying. "Please take me to my son. I had promised him hot food after returning home. The poor boy had not eaten well all day. He was very hungry. God did not even give me time to feed my child," she said.
On Monday, the family had planned to go Puja shopping and Ajoy was very excited at the prospect of buying new clothes. "There will never be a Puja for us any more. Who shall we buy clothes for? We have lost everything that we had," cried Kakoli. "I was always scared of speeding buses in this narrow lane. I wish we had walked."
According to Ajoy's uncle Raju Mondol, his parents were going to drop him at his
aunt's place where he often stayed for the night. "In one stroke, the family has been ruined," said Mondol.
The horrific accident and the couple's anguish triggered an outburst of anger among locals. They almost tore down the bus with their bare hands, smashing the glass and woodwork, and even the metal bumpers and front grille. When police tried to intervene, the mob pelted stones and drove them away. They also prevented the body from being removed. For more than an hour after the accident, the mob held away over the area, bringing traffic to a standstill.
Later, a large police force led by officers from the airport, Baguiati and Madhyamgram police stations forced into the area, dispersed the mob and removed the vehicle. Ajoy's body was sent for post-mortem.
As police removed Ajoy's mangled body, his mother cried out: "Why didn't I die instead?"
"The bus would have been set on fire but for the shanties beside the road. The driver and conductors would have been lynched," said Arup Mondol, a local who witnessed the accident.
Locals allege that bus drivers speed recklessly down the narrow, congested road. "We have often complained to police but they did nothing. The administration is to blame for this child's death," said Rakesh Das, a local. Police are looking for the bus driver and conductors.