Delhi: Retired RAW man dies three weeks after he was ‘poisoned’ in DTC bus
A retired employee of India’s premier intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), died of poisoning at a Delhi hospital last week. 23 days earlier he was allegedly “drugged and robbed” inside a Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus by a youth who appeared to be physically disabled. Vinay Kumar Bhatnagar, 64, was a secretarial staff at RAW and retired in 2012. His daughter Divya Bhatnagar is a television actor. Bhatnagar lived with his family in The events leading to Bhatnagar’s death began in the morning of September 25, when he left home for Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in New Delhi to get his eyes checked, said his wife Dolly Bhatnagar. “I spoke to him around 11.30 am that day. He said he had boarded DTC bus number 85 at Shivaji Stadium and was heading to a bank in Paschim Vihar,” said Dolly. His family realised that he had been robbed. “Apart from his mobile phone, the man took his watch, gold ring, two ATM cards and signed cheques, and left behind his empty wallet,” Bhatnagar’s daughter Divya said. When Bhatnagar regained consciousness on September 28, he recalled the events. “After his check-up, he was resting under a tree when a young man with crutches struck a conversation, saying he was a student,” Divya said. “The man accompanied my father to the Shivaji Stadium bus terminal and sat next to him in the same bus. He spoke about his studies and offered him biscuits. My father didn’t want to be rude and accepted a biscuit. He couldn’t recollect what happened after that,” Divya said. Bhatnagar could not recover and died on October 18. The local police never registered any case in connection with the alleged drugging and robbing or his death. -PTC News
