For 35-year-old Sakshi Ahuja and her household, particularly her two youngsters, the upcoming summer time trip journey was extra thrilling than ever because it was additionally the primary time that the would journey within the Delhi-Chandigarh Vande Bharat categorical. To Chandigarh, after which to the mountains in Himachal Pradesh, the household had deliberate your complete journey beginning on a wet Sunday.

The plan, nevertheless, by no means took off.

Sakshi was electrocuted, in entrance of her youngsters, simply exterior the New Delhi railway station when she unknowingly stepped on to a waterlogged stretch the place there was a unfastened dwell wire — a tragedy, that many mentioned was ready to occur, as blame was pinned on the collective negligence of a number of companies.

The tragedy might be prevented had these liable for the railway station and electrical poles finished their job, shocked kinfolk mentioned on the mortuary, the place they got here to gather the physique after postmortem examination.

“The youngsters have been very excited, as they have been about to journey within the Vande Bharat prepare for the primary time. The seats have been additionally booked simply two days in the past. However the negligence of the railway and different authorities claimed our liked one’s life. What was Sakshi’s fault? Who will take the duty for her demise, and can anyone be punished for this homicide?,” requested Sakshi’s aunt Indu, as she broke into tears.

Sakshi, whose youngsters are solely 9 and seven-year-old, used to show at Pretty Public College in Priyadarshini Vihar close to her home in Preet Vihar, police mentioned. She was additionally a contract architect, and had accomplished the course from an institute in south Delhi. Round 5 years in the past, she began working as a trainer, a relative mentioned.

Her household mentioned that the vacation journey was due for a month because the summer time holidays had already began in faculties in Could. Sakshi was additionally taking alongside her mother and father, who’re retired authorities officers, and two siblings — a youthful sister and brother.

Her mother and father and brother had gone to park their automobile when the tragedy happened. Sakshi, alongside together with her youngsters and sister, was strolling in direction of the primary entrance of the station. However your complete space was flooded with rainwater, in order that they stepped onto a concrete divider to keep away from getting drenched. Taxi operators who noticed the incident mentioned that Ahuja suffered electrical shock both attributable to her entering into the water or whereas holding one of many electrical poles.

They mentioned they used picket sticks and belts to tug Sakshi out of the water for a painfully lengthy 25 minutes. After they lastly did, Sakshi had died by then.

Expressing his anger over the tragic demise, her uncle, Ajay Chopra, mentioned, “The federal government makes tall claims about high-tech railway companies to the general public. The strolling areas on the New Delhi railway station, considered one of premier stations in India, bought flooded with rainwater and claimed the lifetime of a passenger by electrocution. Is that this the high-class public transport system the federal government promotes? We ship our youngsters to railway stations for travelling and never for getting killed. The duty of my niece’s demise should be fastened.”