Three days on, Vilas Kashinath Desai, 43-year-old bus conductor of the ill-fated Jaighad-Mumbai bus, is still to be traced
Three days on, Vilas Kashinath Desai, 43-year-old bus conductor of the ill-fated Jaighad-Mumbai bus, is still to be traced. Relatives claim that he may be stuck inside the ST bus, and allege the agencies are delaying rescue operations.
Desai is a resident of Fungas village in Sangameshwar. He is married to Savita and has two son Raj (12) and Chiraj (2). “Usually on the route, the bus driver and conductor are changed at Chiplun. As usual, he boarded from Chiplun on Tuesday night at 10:30pm. On Wednesday morning, we found that an accident took place after which we tried his number but it was not reachable. We then approached the ST stand and got confirmation about his presence in the bus," said Sunil Desai, the younger brother of Vilas, who is waiting at the civil hospital at Mahad from Wednesday in the hope that his brother will be traced.
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On Thursday morning when the dead body of driver SS Kamble was found we thought he too will be traced. "How many days should we wait?,” added Sunil who is staying in Mahad along with 10 other relatives.
Rashmikant Desai, cousin brother of Vilas and a farmer by profession added, “The authorities are delaying the rescue operation. The dead bodies that are flowing from the heavy water are coming out. What are the experts doing?”
Somnath Vaskar 36, a local corporator and resident of Sanpada claims that he too is waiting from last three days to get trace his relative Dattarey Bhagoji Mirgal 61 who went to Guhaghar to see a ill person. “We are waiting for him from the last three days. We have searched every possible spot, but haven’t traced him,” said Vaskar, adding that the complete family is depressed.
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