Untamed blueline bus claims 1 more

Harsh Vardhan Sahni / TNN / Jul 20, 2007, 03:32 IST

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According to an eyewitness, the victim, Darshan Jain, a resident of Bahadurgarh in Haryana, was knocked down by the bus while he was waiting at the Piragarhi Chowk bus stand.

NEW DELHI: There’s no stopping the Bluelines’ killer run on city roads. A 53-year-old man died after being hit by a Blueline bus at Piragarhi Chowk in west Delhi on Thursday.
According to an eyewitness, the victim, Darshan Jain, a resident of Bahadurgarh in Haryana, was knocked down by the bus while he was waiting at the Piragarhi Chowk bus stand. The bus runs on route no.254, plying between Babarpur extension and Nangloi extension.
Driver, Vir Singh (38), who is a resident of village Bawli near Meerut and was presently residing in Sant Nagar in the Capital, was arrested on the spot on the charges of rash driving under Sections 279 and 304A of the Indian Penal Code.
A senior police officer said that the victim was waiting at the bus stop with his friend Anil Kumar to board a bus to Bahadurgarh when a Blueline, coming from Mangolpuri side, hit him after turning around the bend, seriously injuring Darshan.

The victim was rushed to Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital in S-Block, Mangolpuri, by a Delhi Metro Rail Corporation security guard on an auto-rickshaw. Darshan’s family was alerted after looking up the number on his cellphone.
An employee of the public works department in Haryana, he had been posted at his current location, Bahadurgarh in Haryana, since the past 5-6 months. He used to live there in private quarters and had come to Delhi to visit his family in Rohini, said Satpal Jain, a relative of the deceased.

Darshan is survived by his wife Rukmani, two sons — Ravi Kumar and Bipin Kumar — who live in Rohini Sector-3, and a daughter Mamta, married in Sector-4.
A visibly enraged Satpal said: ‘‘The permits of these buses should be cancelled along with the guilty driver’s license, at least for a year. If sent to the garage for a year, the losses will force bus owners to implement safety norms strictly.’’
He went on to accuse Delhi Traffic Police of being solely concerned with their hafta, not paying attention to actual violations on the road.

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