City boy dies in Chandigarh mishap

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, July 23

After three days, Shivansh Khanna, a final-year MBA student from the Apeejay Institute of Management, Jalandhar, would have been celebrating his 23rd birthday had he not gone to Chandigarh to collect his internship certificate. Had he not chosen to travel on the intervening night of July 21 and 22, Shivansh would have certainly been planning a ball for July 26.

A resident of Fatehpur Colony, Tanda railway crossing, Shivansh’s father Rajan Khanna is a wholesale sanitary businessman and mother Vandana Khanna is a housewife. The Fortuner in which he was travelling in with his three friends hit a Mahindra pick-up vehicle at the Sector 46/47/48/49 traffic light point. Those who were in the Fortuner have been identified as Aneesh and Tushar, both students of the Apeejay Institute of Management, and another youth, Sahil, who was driving the SUV. The impact of the collision was so strong that the rear side of the SUV was completely damaged.

Shivansh suffered severe head injury. He was rushed to the PGI, Chandigarh, where doctors expressed their inability to save him. His parents too reached Chandigarh after being informed by his injured friends but after struggling for life for a few hours, Later, his family took him to a private hospital in Mohali where he breathed his last on Sunday night. Doctors said a complex blood clotting had occurred in his brain that stopped the circulation.

The police said Sahil and Tushar, who were sitting in the front seats of the SUV, escaped with minor injuries. The vehicle was also reported to be overspeeding.