“We wanted our son’s heart to keep beating after his death, to give someone else life, but it will never happen.” The father who donated his son’s liver, kidney, and eyes after he died in a road mishap has an overwhelming remorse: that he could not donate his heart “because Mumbai does not have experienced hands to make it happen”. Last Saturday, Kunal Ashok Chheda (26), a Dombivli resident, was on his way to help rescue a leopard that had entered the premises of a Mulund school. When he came to know the forest department had set a trap to bell the cat, he turned back his bike to go home. But he was never to reach.

Fatal mistake: While returning home via the Eastern Express Highway, Kunal met with an accident near Kalwa. He wasn’t wearing a helmet. Passers-by and the traffic police rushed him to Thane civil hospital.