My Daughter May Have Survived If She Was Taken to Hospital With Hema Malini, Says Father

“Agar woh doctor meri gudia ko bhi Hema malini ke saath hospital le jate, to shayad woh zinda hoti (had the doctor, who took injured Hema Malini to hospital, taken my daughter along with him, she would have been alive), Khandelwal, the father of Sonam said.

Yesterday night, a collision b/w the Mercedes and a Maruti Alto lead to the death of four-year-old girl(Sonam) who was travelling with her parents. Sonam, who died in the accident, was the daughter of Hanuman Khandelwal and Shikha Khandelwal.

Shiv Sharma, a doctor who was passing by, came to the MP’s rescue and rushed Malini, her co-passenger and the driver of the Mercedes to the Fortis hospital in Jaipur in his car. The injured from the other car were rushed to SMS hospital in Dausa.

The distraught father of the four-year-old girl, who died in a car crash with BJP MP Hema Malini’s sedan, is inconsolable while the injured mother is constantly asking “Chinni kahan hai?”, not knowing her daughter is dead. The mother’s uncle, who did not wish to be identified by name, said, “We have told the father, Hanuman Khandelwal, of the death of the child in the accident. He was shocked and has been crying since yesterday night. We tried to console him but fail to do so.

“But we have not told the mother as she is still in a bad condition after the accident,” the relative said.

We are not questioning Hema Malini here but the sensitivity of the person who took Hema Malini to Fortis Hospital in Jaipur and leaving behind the other victims to be carried by local people. It is really shocking how even emotion of a common people work differently for a celebrity and a common victim.

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