Accident claims boy's parents, sister

PUNE: A pall of gloom descended on the Kharat family in Chinchwad which lost four of its members in the accident near Khalapur on the expressway. Sixteen-year old Pranit Kharat, his uncle Kishore Kharat, and Kishore's one-year-old daughter Lavanya survived the accident.
Pranit, who is receiving treatment at the Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital, lost his mother Aruna (35), father Pravin and younger sister Amisha alias Ranu (12) and his aunt Poonam.Pranit, who received fractures on his hands and legs, is in a state of shock.
He was brought to his house from the hospital for a brief period when the bodies of his parents and his younger sister had been brought to the house.
The funeral took place at a Nigdi crematorium.
The Kharat family has been staying in a small house in Ruston colony for nearly 40 years. Both the brothers, Pravin and Kishore, stayed together in a joint family. Pravin worked in a workshop at Akurdi, while his wife Aruna worked in a company at Wakad. Their daughter Amisha was a standard VI student. The family had gone to Ghatkopar in Mumbai to attend the wedding of Eknath Bahule, the son of Aruna's aunt. Kishore works as a conservancy worker while his wife Poonam was a homemaker. Their daughter Lavanya was sitting in Kishore's lap when the accident took place and survived. Kishore has been discharged from the hospital.