India, March 26 -- What was meant to be a joyful homecoming turned into a nightmare for the family members of Mahesh Kumar and Shehbaz Alam, as the former was getting married next month while the latter returning home to meet his pregnant wife.

Mahesh, 23, a resident of Bareilly and Alam, 30, from Bijnor, died in a late-night bus crash in Karol Bagh, Delhi. Mahesh, a daily-wage labourer whose wedding was scheduled for April 20, had boarded the Jaipur-Delhi sleeper bus with his brother Mukesh from Bilaspur, Haryana, around 11.30pm.

"We told the driver to slow down, but he didn't listen," Mukesh said while waiting outside Ram Manohar Lohia hospital mortuary. "My brother was sitting in the rear seat. when the bus overturned, he came under ...