A clear case of accident: Deccan

New Delhi/Patna: Small-town girl Sansrity Sinha’s hopes of making it big in the booming aviation sector came to a gory end on the Delhi airport tarmac last night, days before she was to be engaged.
The 25-year-old aeronautical engineer, found dead in the technical area with her head crushed, was probably knocked down by a vehicle in an increasingly congested airport, sources privy to the post-mortem said.
This morning’s post-mortem suggested a hit-and-run. “She died instantly as her head was crushed. What kind of vehicle knocked her down, and whether she was hit from the front or behind, will only be revealed later,” a source close to the investigation said.
Sansrity’s mother Sheela Kumari Ambastha was inconsolable at the family’s home in Patna.
Sheela, principal of B.N. Collegiate School, and husband Arun Kumar Sinha, professor of psychology at a local college, had been getting their house painted for their youngest daughter’s wedding. They would have left for Delhi in a couple of days for her engagement with a Bangalore-based Wipro engineer.
At Delhi airport, rumours swirled the whole day around the mystery death in the high-security area, some claiming Sansrity might have been run over by an aircraft and some speculating about murder and a love angle.
Deccan officials, conducting their own inquiry, said it was “a clear case of accident”.
The young woman, a former student of Patna’s St Joseph Convent, had graduated from the Indian Institute of Aeronautics in her hometown. Teachers and friends described her as a “brilliant student full of energy and vigour”.
She took up the Deccan job a year ago.
23/10/07 Mandira Nayar and Nalin Verma/The Telegraph

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