A senior officer of the Transport department in Rampur has been suspended on charges of dereliction of duty following death of three schoolchildren in a bus accident earlier this week.
Three schoolchildren aged between six and twelve years were killed and 15 others were injured when their school van overturned after being hit by a mini-truck in Rampur. According to an official communiqué, assistant regional transport officer of Rampur, Kaushalendra Pratap Yadav, has been suspended on charges of dereliction of duty following the death of the children in the bus accident in Rampur last Wednesday.
The van ferrying the children to school had fallen into a roadside ditch near Semaria roundabout on Milak Bilaspur Road under Kaimri police station area of Rampur district on Wednesday morning after being hit by a speeding mini-truck.
The deceased children were students of standards one, two and four of Vidya Inter College and were identified as Harman Singh (6), Kaushal Kumar (6) and Sarjeet Kaur (12). The driver of the mini-truck, Arvind of Dhanbad in Jharkhand, was arrested.