Click to play videoGurgaon: A father's fight for justice to apprehend a truck driver who mowed down his son four months ago is yet to bear fruit as the truck driver has been released on bail.
The boy Akshay Singh would have been 18 years old on October 7 if he was still alive.
Akshay was dancing at a family wedding in Bijnaur moments before he was run over by an over-loaded speeding truck.
"He told me jokingly he won't marry like it used to hap[pen in the family. I was laughing and seconds later a speeding truck mowed him down. I could do nothing as the truck crushed him to death," says Akshay's mother Neelam Singh.
But the family's grief did not end with just losing their young son. What followed was a father's struggle with a corrupt and insensitive police system.
Friends at the wedding gave the Singhs clues on the truck's make and number.
The family ran from pillar to post hunting down that truck and its owner on their own as Uttar Pradesh Police refused to help.
His father spent days at the police station and nights at road-side dhabas (restaurants) to catch hold of the killer. Finally he did succeed in doing so.
The police arrested the driver, only to let him off on bail. The family has now taken their battle for justice to court.
"If nobody takes it up everyday somebody will be killed, everyday so many sons and daughters will be killed so many families will be ruined. So somebody has to bell the cat. There should be some objective to live. I made this an objective that I'll keep fighting for," says Akshay's father Rakesh Singh.
Akshay was like any teenager, full of mischief and life and the Singh's just can't get over the trauma of losing their young son.
"I can recollect all that he used to tell me. When ever I see a truck I am reminded of the accident," says Neelam.
But the eyes that can barely hold back the tears are also dreaming of justice one day.
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