Speeding bus crushes 3-yr-old boy

Three-year-old Aditya Yadav was run over by a BEST bus at Byculla on Saturday. He was rushed to JJ Hospital but declared dead on arrival.

Three-year-old Aditya Yadav was run over by a BEST bus at Byculla on Saturday. He was rushed to JJ Hospital but declared dead on arrival.

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Aditya lived at the railway colony in Wadi Bunder near Sandhurst Road. His father, Ramjeet, is a railway employee.

At 10.30am, Aditya's parents took him to the Byculla railway hospital. While Aditya was being administered polio drops, his mother underwent a routine check-up.

As they stepped out of the hospital, Aditya, who was unescorted, was run over by a speeding BEST bus. Locals caught the driver, Anandrao Mohite, and handed him over to the Byculla police. "Aditya was their first child after 10 years of marriage," said a neighbour.

"Mohite has been booked for causing death due to negligence," said Jaywant R Sarmokadam, assistant commissioner of police (Agripada division).