Three-year old trying to catch a balloon crushed by school bus
FARRUKHNAGAR The boy had gone with his mother to see off his sister at the bus stop
GURGAON: A three-year-old boy was crushed to death by a school bus when he was allegedly trying to catch a balloon in Mushidpur village in Farrukhn agar, about 22 km from Gurgaon on Saturday morning.
The victim was identified as Rakshit Yadav, son of Jitender Y ad av, the police said. A case has been registered under section 279,304 A of the Indian Pen al Code (IPC) on a complaint filed by Jaivir, an eyewitness, at the Farrukhnagar police station.
The incident happened around 8.30 am when the victim’ s mother, Seema Yadav, went to the bus stand to see off her daughter, a student of Cambridge Public School on Farrukhnagar road, with Rakshit.
Relatives of the victim said that everyday, See ma would take Rakshit, her daughter, and two daughters of her brother-in-law, who also study in the same school, to the bus stop.
“( On Saturday morning) I saw the children playing on the road while waiting for the bus. The bus came and all the school-going children embarked on it. The bus had not even moved 10 feet when there was a cracking sound and the driver stopped the vehicle. The boy’s mother saw Rakshit under the bus, screamed and col- lapsed”, said Hari Ram, an ex-armyman who lives near the bus stop and the first person to pick up the boy from under the bus.
“The boy’s body was lifeless. There was nothing left in him as his head been smashed by the weight of the tyres,” said Hari Ram. “I picked his body and wrapped it in a cloth,” he said. The bus driver came down from the bus and was at the spot for some time till the family members asked him to leave. Karan Singh, SHO, Farrukhnagar said initial probe suggested that the boy had seen someone in the bus who dropped the balloon on the road.
“The boy rushed to catch it and came under the tyres. A case under Sections 279 and 304A of the IPC has been registered against the bus driver,” said Singh. Rajpal Ya dav, former sarpanch, said there were around 25 students in the bus, who were sent back to their homes safely.