Outside the mortuary at Maulana Azad Medical College on Tuesday afternoon, a man in his 40s arrived quietly with packets of food and bottles of water.

Ashok Randhawa, a survivor of the 2005 serial bomb blasts, had come to offer not just food and water but also to provide comfort to the grieving families of the Red Fort blast.

2005 serial blasts

Mr. Randhawa was in Sarojini Nagar on October 29, when a bomb went off at the busy marketplace during the pre-Deepavali festive rush, killing 37 people.

Two other bombs went off in other parts of the city in close succession claiming a total of 62 lives and injuring over 200 people.