Tragic Grand Central Parkway crash victims to be buried together as both families raise their daughter

Meera Dukharan and Anil Persaud will spend eternity side by side. Three other people in the car were injured in crash caused by speeding.

THE TEEN parents killed when their boozy pal’s car crashed on a Queens highway Saturday will be buried side by side — and their parents will raise their orphaned baby girl.

Meera Dukharan, 17, and Anil Persaud, 18, will be buried together at a Forest Hills cemetery Wednesday, devastated relatives told the Daily News.
“We would never separate them in life and we will never separate them in death,” said Dukharan’s grandmother, Jina Mangru, 54. “They were lovers.”

Mangru vowed to provide the couple’s 14-month-old daughter, Meya, with a wonderful upbringing.
“She is loved by every member of this family,” Mangru said. “She will be in good hands.”

The family is furious at Madosh Hansraj, who was behind the wheel during the crash. “If he was driving at 60, my son would have had a chance,” said Anil’s father, Chitrenjan Persaud.

After downing a couple of beers and shooting pool at Michael’s Side Pocket bar in Richmond Hill, Hansraj packed five friends into his 1996 Honda Civic, police said. He lost control on the Grand Central Parkway shortly before 4 a.m.

Dukharan and Persaud were thrown from the back seat, each landing about 100 feet away. Three others were injured, two slightly.

Hansraj, 20, wept at his arraignment Saturday on charges including manslaughter, assault, criminally negligent homicide and driving while under the influence. He is being held on $250,000 bail.