It was around 3 pm, as they waited inside the computer-repairing shop in Khirki Extension. It was then that they heard a loud noise outside – a school van had banged into their parked motorbike outside the shop. Almost as a reflex action, they rushed outside and accosted the driver of the car. The driver was accompanied by a caretaker, seated next to him and three other kids in the rear seat of the vehicle. Their motorbike had suffered substantial damage because of the crash and the driver agreed to pay for the repairs.



However, he said that he’d have to drop the kids home first as he was on a private school’s duty. The driver offered to leave behind the caretaker as guarantor. It was, till then, another one of those minor road accidents that occur everyday in the city.