Hyderabad, July 30: Everytime Saroja talked to her UK-based son G Arvind Kumar, she would recall the string of attacks on Indians, particularly Hyderabadis, in Australia, and plead with him to return home.
Arvind would evade an answer wondering what would he do in Hyderabad. His reluctance proved fatal. The 28-year-old died in a road accident in the UK. Arvind, a manager at a leading super market in Reading, was driving to his place of work when another car rammed into his vehicle killing him on the spot.
‘‘My brother was driving from his room to the super market when another car hit his vehicle while he was taking a U-turn, ’’ Arvind’s brother, Ajay Kumar, told Express.
The accident reportedly took place at around 3 p.m and one of Arvind’s cousins, Sridhar, who also stays in London, was the first to be informed.
‘‘Sridhar called us and informed us of the accident.
He told us that he would drive down to Reading and update us. After an hour, we received the tragic news,’’ Ajay Kumar said. The UK police was not providing information to Sridhar as they wanted to examine video footage to ascertain the cause of the mishap, he added.
Though Arvind was the youngest in the family, that resides on the PG Road in Secunderabad, he was their main financial supporter. Ajay runs a kirana store. ‘‘My mother was slowing coming to terms with the tragedy of our father Krishna Murthy’s death. He had died four years ago. And now, my brother’s death has shattered her,’’ Ajay said.
Arvind was a graduate of the Wesley Degree College and had left for London eight years ago to study MBA. He, however, discontinued his studies and started working in super markets. With almost five years of experience in super markets, he landed with a managerial job in Tesco, a UK-based super market chain, recently.
‘‘We wanted to perform his marriage but he kept postponing. We would have performed his marriage next year,’’ a visibly shaken Ajay said. Arvind last visited the family in 2006 and stayed here for a week to renew his international driving licence.
The family is looking for the State Government’s help in bringing the body home. Sanathnagar legislator Marri Shashidhar Reddy visited the family and has taken up the matter with the embassy authorities.
–Agencies–