Rohini businessman's engineering student son dies in Pune's Sassoon Hospital after battling burn injuries
Rohini businessman's engineering student son dies in Pune's Sassoon Hospital after battling burn injuries
Holi would never be the same again for Misha.
The 24-year-old MBA student at the Indraprastha University was sad that she would not be able to celebrate
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the festival of colours this year with her brother, Aditya, who was pursing engineering at a Pune college.
On Tuesday evening, while she was watching TV at her Rohini Sector 8 residence, her neighbours came and broke the news. They told her that the TV channels were airing her brother's name among the list of those killed in Pune blast.
"While surfing news channels I saw Aditya's name in the list of the dead. When I asked Misha, she drew a blank. She didn't even know that her brother had died," Pankaj Chawla, a neighbour told MiD DAY.
Aditya, a student of Bharatiya Vidyapeeth, suffered 60 per cent burn injuries in the blast at German Bakery where he had gone with her friend Aditi.
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Misha, who left for Pune immediately, would now have to bring back the body of her younger brother.
The grief-stricken fatheru00a0-- Jayprakash Mehtau00a0--u00a0 could not control his emotions as he broke down at Sassoon Hospital. "We will never return to Pune. It has taken away my only son."
Aditya's body is expected to be flown in by Thursday. However, his family did not confirm when they would be returning to Delhi.
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Aditya, along with his friend Aditi, had gone to German Bakery on Saturday for coffee. The Bakery is one of Pune's most frequented joints. Aditi, who hailed from Ambala, was pursuing a course in fashion designing from a Pune |
"He was an intelligent student and a hard-working guy. I taught him Maths during vacations.
He was so talented as he used to complete a semester syllabus in just 15 days," retired scientist B H Singh, a neighbour, said.u00a0
Aditya's father JP Mehta is a businessman while mother Meera is a housewife.
Ashish, a close friend, remembered Aditya as a boy who loved his football with equal passion as his books. "He was a very good football player. Ironically, he had to lose both his legs before dying," he said.
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