A DPS School official is among the three persons arrested by the police in connection with the death of four students in a road accident here on January 5. All of them have been booked for culpable homicide.
Besides, on the directives by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chhouhan, Indore Regional Transport Officer MP Singh has also been transferred. This action was taken on Sunday after Chouhan isited the houses of the school students who lost their lives in the road accident. The parents of the students reportedly informed the CM of the unabated irregularities in the Transport Department.
The ghastly mishap occurred at the Kanadiya bypass when the speeding school bus rammed into a truck on Friday, killing four students and the bus driver Rahul Sisodia.
A faulty speed governor device installed on the bus is suspected to be the cause behind the accident.
"Police on Saturday arrested Delhi Public School (DPS) Transport Officer Chaitanya Kumawat, Suvidha Auto Gas director Neeraj Agnihotri and its staffer Jalaj Meshram," Additional Superintendent of Police, Manoj Kumar Rai told.
The trio have been booked under the section 304 (punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the IPC over the malfunction of the speed governor installed in the ill-fated bus.
The incident had occurred when Sisodia lost control of the bus, which broke the divider and entered a parallel lane, before colliding head-on with the truck.
Four students, aged between six and 12 years, and the bus driver died in the incident, while nine other students and the driver's assistant were injured. Six of the injured students are in critical condition.
As per preliminary investigation, though Suvidha Auto was not authorised to install the speed governor in the school bus, it did so illegally.
Speed Governor is a device which can limit the vehicle speed to a preset limit, thus improving vehicle efficiency and road safety. Rai said Suvidha Auto prima facie procured a fitness certificate from Transport department on forged documents.