Hyderabad: Sohini Saxena, the victim of negligent driving by a temporary RTC driver was mother to twins Akshay and Ankitha. She was on her way to her parents’ house at Hussaini Alam, to attend the birthday celebrations of her eldest brother Rishikesh Saxena.
Sohini’s family, left heartbroken by this tragedy, questions the state government’s decision to hire temporary drivers who may not be trained to drive public transportation vehicles. They raised slogans against chief minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao at mortuary and demanded that the government take immediate measures to ensure that no other family suffers as they have.
Sohini was the youngest of four siblings. Her three brothers, Rishikesh, Amaresh, and Vishesh are bankers as is her husband Vineeth Kumar Mathur, a senior manager with ICICI Bank at Gadchibowli. He got the information about his wife’s death at work and rushed to the accident spot and from there to OGH, where the body had been taken for autopsy.
“The last time I spoke to her was today morning. After I left for office, Sohini made a phone call and said she is going to her office,” he said.
Two days ago, the twins had been admitted to a playschool. “My only request to the government is to train its drivers and ensure no such incident takes place again,” said a sobbing Vineeth.
Rishikesh, eldest of Sohini’s three brothers, said, “I was in the office when I got to know of my sister’s death. She was our only sister. A highly educated and self-confident woman, working in a reputed MNC lost her life to the irresponsibility of a driver hired by the state government.”
He added that “it is so shameful that such people are allowed to drive public transportation vehicles. Who will take responsibility for my sister’s death? She called in the morning and conveyed birthday wishes to me, promising that she would come home after 1 pm and she is no more now.”
