Final selfie of doctor couple goes viral after Ahmedabad crash kills entire family
Ahmedabad: A final selfie taken aboard Air India Flight AI-171 has gone viral, capturing a young doctor couple from Rajasthan and their three children just moments before the plane crashed seconds after take-off from Ahmedabad. All five members of the family perished in the tragedy, along with 236 others on board.
Dr Komi Vyas, a medical professional from Udaipur, had recently quit her job to join her husband, Dr Prateek Joshi, in London. Dr Joshi had been working in the UK and had returned to India just two days earlier to accompany his family on the journey back.
"They left for Ahmedabad yesterday to take the flight to London. Prateek had come here just two days ago to take his wife and children with him. Several other members of both families went to see them off," said Dr Joshi’s cousin Nayan.
The family, including twin sons Nakul and Pradyut (5) and daughter Miraya (8), boarded the ill-fated flight bound for London Gatwick. However, the aircraft failed to gain altitude and crashed into a residential building 32 seconds after take-off, erupting into flames. Of the 242 passengers and crew on board, only one person survived.
The image of the family, smiling and seated inside the aircraft, has since circulated widely on social media, a heartbreaking visual of lives filled with hope and anticipation, cut short in an instant.
What was meant to be the beginning of a new life abroad has now become a symbol of profound loss, with the final photograph standing as a tragic reminder of the fragility of life.
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PIL in SC seeks SIT probe into Rahul Gandhi’s allegations of electoral roll manipulation
New Delhi: A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking the constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by a former judge to probe allegations of large-scale manipulation of voters’ lists in the Bengaluru Central constituency during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, as raised by Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi.
The petition, filed by Advocate Rohit Pandey through Advocate Kausar Raza Faridi, also sought directions restraining any further revision or finalisation of electoral rolls until compliance with the Court’s directions and an independent audit. It further sought binding guidelines to ensure transparency in the preparation and publication of electoral rolls, including mechanisms to detect duplicate or fictitious entries.
The petitioner cited Rahul Gandhi’s press conference on August 7 and claimed to have independently verified the allegations, pointing to 40,009 invalid voters and 10,452 duplicate entries in Bengaluru Central. Instances of voters holding multiple EPIC numbers across states, identical addresses and fathers’ names, and around 80 voters registered at a single small house were also highlighted.
The plea argued that such manipulation undermines Articles 324, 325, and 326 of the Constitution, distorts the principle of “one person, one vote,” and infringes the rights to equality and democratic participation under Articles 14 and 21.
