Teenage girl dead while returning from party with Facebook friends

KOLKATA: A 19-year-old girl fashion designing student returning home from an overnight party at a lounge bar in Highland Park was killed when their car was allegedly hit by a truck from behind and the car rammed against the median divider on EM Bypass near Salt Lake stadium early on Sunday morning.
Ahana Kar, a first year student at a private fashion designing institute in Salt Lake and a resident of Belghoria, was out with a group of friends she had met barely a month ago through Facebook.At the time of the accident, she was seated in the front beside the driver seat and was allegedly leaning out of the window when the truck hit them around 4am. At the impact of the accident, Ahana was flung out of the car and her skull got smashed as she hit the iron rails and the concrete step stones. The driver and owner of the Volkswagen Vento, Faiyaz Uddin Siddiqui, 25, also suffered critical facial and head injuries and was admitted at Apollo Gleneagles Hospital, less than a km away. Four other friends and cousins of Siddiqui, at the backseat, were also injured but doctors said they were stable.
The eerie of the accident has stark similarities with what happened with 17-year-old Aabesh Dasgupta at a Sunny Park residential complex, less than one and half months ago. Both were young, both were attending a party with little known friends, both died under mysterious circumstances and in both cases the parents got to know about the death much after incident took place. In this case Ahana’s parents were informed around 10am, around six hours after the accident had taken place. The reason -- police said her phone and none of the friends knew her parents. Her parents could be informed only after Ahana’s phone could be recovered and the phone was charged before it could be turned on.
“She had left home around 7.45pm on Saturday. She had told her mother she would be back by late night but when she did not come home even after midnight her parents panicked. Her phone was switched off and none of the friends whose numbers the parents had knew about her. In the morning, police called us to inform she is dead,” said Apurba Kar, Ahana’s uncle.
Ahana’s father is a branch manager at LIC India at the Strand Road office and her mother is a homemaker. She was their only child, the uncle said.