HIT-&-RUN VICTIM ROBBED, LEFT TO DIE
Delhi is not dilwalon ki Dilli but a heartless and insensitive city! “We are poor and will never get justice for my son whose life was snuffed out by a careless driver. How will we survive now? Our son was the sole breadwinner of the family,” said a devastated Vaseeruddin, the father of 35-year-old Matibul, who died unattended on the side of the road after he was hit by a rashly-driven three-wheeler tempo in West Delhi’s Subhash Nagar on Wednesday morning.
The CCTV camera footage shows Mutibul walking on the side of the road when a wildly-careening cargo carrier knocking him down from behind. The seemingly drunk driver steps out of the vehicle, looks at the man, inspects damage to his vehicle and then drives away leaving Mutibul to bleed to death. What happens next is even more shocking! A rickshaw-puller stops, pays little attention to the accident victim’s condition, steals his mobile phone, and pedals away.
Hundreds of vehicles passed by the badly-injured Matibul but none bothered to take him to hospital, resulting in his death.
Police on Thursday arrested the driver of the tempo. “We have arrested the accused who ran over Matibul. He has been identified as Rajesh and works as a milkman,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police, west district, Pushpendra Kumar.
However, the driver’s arrest is not enough to console the devastated family.
“My son would have been alive today if somebody had even bothered to inform the police,” the inconsolable father told The Pioneer on phone.
70-year-old Vaseeruddin said that his son, who was living in Delhi for the last ten years used to send money home to support his wife and four children in West Bengal’s Amarjhari Village in Dinakpur district.
“Matibul was a hardworking man. He would do two jobs just to be able to make two ends meet and send home Rs 500-600 per week from his earnings as a security guard and e-rickshaw driver. We used to survive on this money, as I can’t work anymore. From the money he used to send us his wife Sairun would buy rice and other eatables to feed the entire family.
“We did not even know that he was no more. On Wednesday afternoon, Matibul’s friend and roommate Kheirul called me and gave me the shocking news. I immediately switched on the TV and saw my son’s last moments with my own eyes,” said Vaseeruddin adding, “After hitting my son, the driver just looked at him and went away. How can someone be so inhuman? He just saw my son lying there, bleeding, and left him there! And one man came along and instead of helping him, he just stole my son’s phone and left him there to die.”
Matibul, began his life in the metro by earning money as a rickshaw-puller. Later he started working as an e-rickshaw driver in the morning and as a security guard at night.
At around 5:30 am on Wednesday he had just finished his night shift and was walking back to his room in Tihar Gaon close to Subhash Nagar when the accident took place. He lay by the side of the road for over an hour before a passerby informed the police.
When contacted Matibul’s wife Sairuna said, “My life is dark now. He was going to come home in a few days to see us. I don’t know what to do anymore. The incident has scared me and I do not know how to feed my family now”.
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