Sunil, a Class II student of the Institute for Handicapped Children, was being taken on a cycle by his cousin Viresh Kumar to the bus stop when a DTC bus hit them from behind. The sped off after the accident at 7.55 a.m.

Sunil fell in front of the bus while Viresh fell to one side and fractured his foot. ``We were going down the Kondli bridge when the bus hit us from behind,'' said Viresh. Just a few metres away, on the same road, five-year-old Anu was crushed to death by a school bus belonging to Ryan International School on Tuesday.

People in Kondli are restive after the two incidents. ``We would have burnt the bus but we thought of the people inside,'' said a resident.

They are especially angry because the accident took place a stone's throw away from the Kalyanpuri police post but, according to them, the police did not even attempt to chase the bus driver. ``The bus which ran on route no. 301 (DET 9739) completed its trip to Red Fort and back and remained in the depot. But the police did not seize the vehicle or arrest the driver,'' said Anup Kumar Mishra, a resident.

Sunil's body has been taken to the Sabji Mandi mortuary for post-mortem. ``We will get the body only on Thursday now. What do they want to find out of a crippled little boy? That he was on drugs or was drunk?'' asked his father, Ram Avtar.

Sunil, who had developed a slight limp in one of his legs after a bout of polio in his childhood, had told his father in the morning that he would wait till he came and picked him up from school. ``Who will wait for Papa now?'' said his mother Munni. Before Anu and Sunil, it was four-year-old Vicky who was hit by an MCD tempo on January 27. He survived the accident but his grandmother is left with no option but to beg the Kalyanpuri police almost everyday to get the culprit to pay for his medical bills.

The narrow road of Kondli village is the only outgoing road from Mayur Vihar Phase III, trapping the people in Kondli in the flow of traffic. Apart from the DTC and Blueline buses going from Mayur Vihar Phase III to different parts of Delhi, there are scores of school buses from the area which race through the road. ``Even today, the school bus which killed our child was speeding past our road,'' said a resident of Kondli, referring to the bus belonging to Ryan International School which killed little Anu on Tuesday. ``There are about 50 buses, all of which go at frightening speed through this narrow road,'' said another resident, Ram Kishor Singh.

The road going through Kondli splits into two after the Kondli bridge -- to Kalyanpuri and Gajipur. And except for buses going to Gajipur, all the buses from Mayur Vihar Phase III take the road to Kalyanpuri. The road has no speedbreakers, except at Khichripur near an ITI, where it was erected after an accident some time ago. The narrow Kondli road is just a couple of kilometres long, but there are unauthorised constructions on both sides.