School boys killed by B Com student: 40 people on board but no one intervened
The family of 17-year-old Mohammad Anas, who was stabbed to death on a DTC Bus Delhi on Friday after a tiff with five boys, said he could have been saved had even one of the passengers intervened. Anas, a B Com Hons student at Al-Falah University in Faridabad, died on a moving bus in south Delhi. When he confronted them on suspicion of his lost mobile phone in the bus, they resisted Anas and slit his throat According to the bus conductor, there were at least 40 passengers on the bus at the time of the murder. “It just needed one passenger to stand up against the boys. That would have given everyone else courage to take on the goons. But there was not one man with courage in that bus,” said Anas’ uncle, Mujeeb Ahmed. He said the passengers neither made any attempt to provide medical aid nor rushed Anas to hospital. “Why is it that Anas was taken to hospital only after the PCR van arrived? Why did the bus conductor not do anything to prevent the attack when it happened right next to his seat,” said Anas’ father, Bholu Khan. Dependra Pathak, Delhi Police’s chief spokesperson “People are circumspect because they don’t know the people involved or the circumstances under which the conflict is happening. They are afraid to do their human duty because they do not want to get into any kind of trouble,” The officer urged people to intervene in such situations and assured good Samaritans will get legal protection. “They should be rest assured that the law is on their side,” said the officer. The five accused students, who allegedly killed the boy, had bunked school that day and were taking casual joyrides in buses. -PTC News
