Hyderabad: Students’ action was impromptu

Hyderabad: Bhaskar was one of the nine intermediate students who went on a joyride across the city early Friday morning, after climbing down a pipe from their rooms.

The car the students were in hit the pillar of a flyover near Aramghar, killing two of the boys. Bhaskar escaped without injuries but his friends Tarun and Uday died in the crash.

Bhaskar’s family rushed in from Nagarkurnool when they heard about the incident. His aunt told Deccan Chronicle, “Our boy is so fortunate. If it was him who died, we would have been grieving at the morgue.”

His father was pacing outside the principal’s office, worried about his son’s future, now that he was named in a police case.

“The principal told us to counsel Bhaskar. He told us to talk sense into him,” he said.

One of the friends, Ganesh, had left the hostel in the evening with permission from the administration. He went home to fetch his father’s car. The others climbed down a pipe after midnight and met at a predetermined place.

When asked why he chose to climb down the building, Bhaskar shuffled his feet and said, “We just felt like it. We didn't think much.”

Ganesh’s father Satish, a resident of Kompally, who owned the car, said, “We admitted our son here so that he could become a doctor. I did not think I would wake up to this news.”

Mr Satish, a sarpanch in Narayankhed mandal, had apparently learnt of the accident via news reports.