MUMBAI, March 6: A Woman witness of the Ramabai Nagar incident told the Gundewar commission today that pieces of a young boy's fractured skull fell on her after an SRPF jawan fired at him.During her examination by counsel for the commission Vijay Pradhan, Lalita Naik said that she was standing alongside the young victim Mahesh Shivsharan near a shop, Gani Arts, when the incident occurred.``I picked up Mahesh and took him to his parents,'' Naik added, pointing out that his shocked parents rushed him towards the SRP van stationed on the Eastern Express highway. At that time a social worker Sukhdev Kapadane, who was pushed out of the SRPF van, walked towards Buddha Vihar even as Mahesh's father carrying his dead son approached the van, Lalita said adding, ``Kapadane was hit by a bullet and fell near an iron pipe.'' Recounting the series of events before Mahesh and Kapadane were fired upon, Naik said at 7.15 she stood next to Gani Arts shop to see what the commotion was all about since the highway could beseen from there.She saw a police van coming from the Chembur side. An SRP van came from the other direction and stopped in front of Buddha Vihar on the highway, Naik said.``An SRP jawan got down from the van and began firing in the direction of Buddha Vihar,'' Naik recollected. Five or six other jawans too alighted from the van and opened fire, she added. Nearly 20 feet away from where she stood, she saw a youth hit by a bullet gasping for breath, and another youth was hit near Gani Arts, while one bullet struck the shop's shutter, she said.Replying to a question by Pradhan, Naik said almost 50 people had gathered near the shop, most of them women and children, but none of them were involved in slogan-shouting or stone-throwing. She said she didn't see any luxury bus set afire, and added the police had not recorded her statement.
