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Two brothers mowed down by DTC bus

Staff Reporter

The young twins were on their way to Rohini

NEW DELHI: In a tragic mishap, two brothers were crushed under the wheels of a Delhi Transport Corporation bus after their motorcycle skidded in an attempt to avoid hitting a stray cow in Ashok Vihar here on Saturday.

Love Jain and Manish Jain, both in their late 20s, were twins. They were on their way to Deepali Chowk in Rohini in the morning for the inauguration of a shop. They had barely travelled a kilometre when their motorcycle skidded trying to avoid hitting the cow that suddenly came on the road.

The two brothers fell down and were crushed under the wheels of the DTC bus going towards Vishnu Garden.

“It all happened very quickly.

Even before the two could try and get up, the bus coming from behind ran over them,” said an eyewitness.

Some passers-by informed the local police and the bodies were shifted to Babu Jagjivan Ram Hospital for post-mortem.

Driver caught

Manish, a neighbour of the Jain brothers, said: “It was around 9-30 a.m. that some policemen came to our DDA flats society and informed the Jains about the accident. The accident had taken place near Laxmibai College just a stone’s throw from our housing society. When we reached the spot, the bodies were still lying on the road. The bus driver had been caught.”

“The family was preparing for the upcoming wedding of Love. He was to get married on June 25 this year. But fate had something else in store for them. It is a strange irony: the two were born and died together,” Manish said.

The police said a case had been registered and eyewitnesses were being examined.

The victims were residents of DDA flats in Ashok Vihar Phase-III. They worked in a garments shop in Chandni Chowk.

Their father, Mahesh Jain, owns a polythene unit in Delhi’s Narela area. The two are survived by their parents and a younger brother.

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