Hemant can’t get over the fact that he didn’t visit them as he did every day to meet their mother Parvatiben (who was staying with him). “He would always come here, have some snacks and then head home,’’ he says. “That day, I guess, he wanted to return home early... if only he had come. But what can be done now.”

Suresh was due for retirement next year. And had already made plans of running a small shop either in Nallasopara or somewhere else in Mumbai to stay busy. But even though that’s not to be, he will always be remembered by all— his family will miss him for the father he was and the elder brother he had been, while his colleagues say they’ll keep talking of the “jolly good man who loved to eat chicken and mutton.”