NEW DELHI: "This might be the last time we see him in his home," said Khushi, a friend of Atul Arora, when the teenager's body reached his house from the mortuary on Monday. Khushi fondly remembered the good times she had spent with the Class XII student, who was killed in a hit-and-run case late on Sunday night. "None of us liked to go out much after school hours, so we mostly ended up coming to Atul's house either for group studies or to spend some free time," said the grief-stricken girl.

And yet just hours earlier, nobody could have imagined the young student's life would be cut short by a Mercedes Benz ramming into his scooter and killing him. Monday was supposed to be the first day of Atul's final year in school. A month short of his 17th birthday, the boy was eager to meet his friends after a two-week school break.

"He had his bag all packed, the new books neatly arranged inside," said a despairing Ruchi Arora, Atul's elder sister, a teacher. "His uniform was crisply ironed. I had got a new pair of shoes for him, but he never got to wear them."

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