UP: Father-son duo killed in accident were family’s only breadwinners

LUCKNOW: Rashi Saxena, who lost her husband Rajendra Saxena and son Lucky in the bus collision, was inconsolable.
Her distant brother-in-law, Chutakke, told TOI that Rajendra had three sons, and except Lucky, the other two – Vishal and Neeraj – were specially-abled.
“Rajendra ran two small fruit and vegetable kiosks and was going to attend a funeral in Hardoi,” he said.Rashi, who had come along with Chutakke, fainted after seeing the bodies of her son and husband in the mortuary.
Meanwhile, the family of Nitesh Bharti, who was crushed by a UPSRTC bus while he was having tea at a kiosk in Kakori, demanded compensation from the government.
“Nitesh was not at fault. He was standing at a kiosk when he was run over by a bus. He was going to visit his aunt in a nearby village,” Nitesh’s cousin Shivam said. He said Nitesh was preparing for civil services examination and was a student of BA (II). His father Mukesh Bharti is a technician in the railways. Nitesh’s elder brother, Himanshu, is an engineering student at a college in Lucknow.
Miraculous escape for ‘divyang’ youth: While a youth, Nitesh Bharti, died after being hit by one of the two UPSRTC buses in Kakori, an specially-abled youth, Mateen, who was at the same tea stall had a miraculous escape.
Onlookers told police that Mateen, along with Nitesh, came under the bus but escaped unhurt.