However, the police got moving only two weeks after the incident. But even now, three months after, her husband, Updesh Kapur's efforts to trace the driver of the bus have yielded no results.

A British citizen of Indian origin, Kapur has now turned to the Internet to promote his mission of finding the driver. He also wants to ensure that other victims of hit-and-run cases get justice and is planning to mobilise their support.

``The bus driver is still at large and might kill more people. Had this happened in Britain, he would have been liable for murder because he fled after he hit my wife. Out here they say it is a bailable offence...had he taken her to a hospital she might have been saved,'' he says. ``I lost her so young. No one can feel the agony and pain I have undergone. It is so insensitive that no one helped her out on the busy road even when she lay there injured,'' he says. Updesh is now in India on a mission to bring together families of other hit-and-run victims who didn't get justice.

``I have collected some information and passed it on to the police and officials but nothing has been done...the markings on the bus were in orange which made us suspect that it might have been a Punjab roadways bus. We even approached the higher authorities including the British High Commission at Delhi, but nothing happened,'' he says.

``I have been told that about 85,000 people lose their life in road accidents every year in India, I know I can't get Prabha back but I want to make an effort to get the government to act fast in such matters, and not let killers go scot-free,'' he adds.

At http://www.gradient.ie/kapu, the site also has a copy of the petition which seeks support in getting the killer driver booked, and to pressure the government into taking some action. ``I am not going to let them do nothing, already more than 300 people have signed the petition on the Net and have pledged their support. I am also meeting some of the families of hit-and-run victims in Delhi to bring them all together,'' he says.

According to him, with the high rate of such accidents, there was need to create public consciousness so that the culprits can be identified and booked. ``It is indeed shocking there must have been many passengers on the bus, and on the busy road. Not one came forward to give clues about the killer bus even after we got several thousand posters printed asking for clues,'' he says.

According to him ``the Indian and British governments instead of helping me find the bus and the bus driver, told me that I can hire a private detective to trace it.''

Updesh adds that he is perplexed by the attitude of the British government. ``I talked to the British High Commission officials here, but they told me that they could only proceed through the normal channel. There have been innumerous cases when the British government has intervened. I am not saying they are racist, but I don't know why am I being denied the same right.'' However, he is determined to fight the battle to secure justice.

``I won't move out of India till the culprit is caught, for me the only thing left is to make the authorities realise how difficult it is to come to terms with things like this. This is not a stray case, I want others who have met with similar experiences to get in touch with me. I lost my wife, but how can they be so insensitive to thousands of others who lose their dear ones, but are helpless,'' Kapur added.