The small space, just enough to park a goods cart, under a tree in Chandni Chowk’s cycle market, has been lying vacant since Monday night.

“Kashmiri yahaan apni rickshaw lagaata tha (Kashmiri used to park his rickshaw here),” 45-year-old Shiv Singh Nagar told The Indian Express . “Kashmiri”, Nagar’s friend Bilal Ahmad Masood (32), on Thursday succumbed to injuries sustained in the blast outside Red Fort on Monday evening.

On Friday afternoon, battery-operated goods carts – or “rickshaws” – lined the cycle market, a row of shops selling bicycles and bicycle parts two lanes away from the site of the explosion. Bilal’s cart was destroyed in the blast in which 10 people were killed and 30 injured.

Bilal moved to Delhi as a teenager 16 years ago from Ganderbal in Jammu & Kashmir. He wa

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