Bajwa, Manpreet seek action in Rupnagar hit-and-run case
Friday, 10/07/2015
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CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa on Thursday demanded the registration of a case against the directors of Dabwali Transport, after a bus from this fleet allegedly hit a man near the Rupnagar toll barrier in the morning, killing him on the spot.
He said that the bus driver had not even bothered to stop after crushing Swaran Singh of Behrampur village under the wheels. “I am astonished how he even reached his destination, Amritsar, without being caught by the police,” said Bajwa. The Congress leader said that the company should pay the victim’s family at least `30 lakh as compensation and the Punjab government should give a job to one of its members, like it was done in the recent Moga case involving an Orbit bus.
He appealed to the Punjab and Haryana high court to take suo-motu notice of this “another case involving a transport company in which deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal and his father, CM Parkash Singh Badal, have a stake”. He sought a ban on the plying of the Badalfamily buses, saying these had turned into killing machines.
On Thursday, People’s Party of Punjab president Manpreet Singh Badal also demanded strict action in the hit-and-run case after which people had jammed traffic on the highway.
He supported demand for a compensation of `30 lakh from the company and a government job for a member of the affected family. Manpreet said there was no check on the “indiscipline bordering goondaism” being resorted to by the staff of the buses of the ruling family despite the so-called orientation course organised after the Moga tragedy.
He claimed that the members of the staff of these bus companies were a law unto themselves as no action had been taken, so far, in the Moga tragedy case and nobody knew as to what had happened to the commission formed to investigate it.
