Kallar Kahar
\nIn the aftermath of the deadly bus accident near Kallar Kahar, which claimed 13 lives and left more than 30 people injured, a criminal complaint has been filed against the bus driver and its owner, among others, it emerged on Sunday.
\nYesterday, a bus veered off the Islamabad-Lahore Motorway into the opposite lane and overturned near Kallar Kahar.
\nThe first information report (FIR), a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, was filed on Saturday evening by Motorway Police Officer Muhammad Bilal at the Kallar Kahar police station.
\nIt names the bus driver, bus owner, manager of the Rawalpindi station (from where the bus departed), manager of the bus company\u2019s station and the motor vehicle examiner as those who are responsible for the accident.
\nIt invokes sections 322 (punishment for qatl-bis-sabab), 337G (punishment for hurt by rash or negligent driving), 279 (rash driving or riding on a public way), 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees) and 109 (punishment of abetment if the act abetted committed In consequence and where no express provision is made for its punishment) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
\nIn his complaint, the official stated he was performing his routine duty at N-225 when at around 3:14pm, he received an alert that a bus \u2014 with registered number BSG-055 and belonging to the Shalimar Transport Service \u2014 was met with an accident.
\nUpon reaching the location, he saw that the bus driver, Farhat Abbas Shah, had \u201clost control of the bus\u201d, due to which it \u201cbroke the crash barrier\u201d and overturned, the complainant added.
\nBilal further said that a total of 13 people were killed in the accident, out of which five had died on the spot and were yet to be identified.
\nThe FIR stated that 32 others were injured, who were then taken to the Kallar Kahar Trauma Centre via ambulances belonging to Rescue 1122, Hascol Petroleum and the Frontier Works Organisation.
\nThe complainant went on to say that upon inquiring, the survivors alleged the bus was \u201cnot fully fit\u201d when it was departing the Rawalpindi bus station.
\nThe FIR quoted them as saying that they informed the driver; the bus owner; and the Rawalpindi station manager, about the vehicle\u2019s \u201cfault\u201d. However, the men told the driver that the bus was fit to be driven, the FIR added.
\nRegardless, the complaint went on to state that the driver was also to be held responsible for the accident as the bus was not running in a fit condition even when on its way to Islamabad.
\n\u201cThis accident occurred due to the above-mentioned driver\u2019s negligence, carelessness and speeding, as well as due to driving the vehicle at the behest of the bus owner and the station manager,\u201d the FIR states.
\nBilal also held the bus company\u2019s officials responsible as they failed to conduct appropriate checks on the bus\u2019 condition and let it function.
\nAs the main manager of the Shalimar company\u2019s main bus station at Jhang and the motor vehicle examiner are also involved in this incident, action should be taken against them as well, the complaint said.
\nAccording to the FIR, Arooj, Fatima, Rohan, Shayan, Hadia, Ameer Bibi, Maneesa Bibi and Imran are among the dead along with five others who are yet to be identified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kallar Kahar In the aftermath of the deadly bus accident near Kallar Kahar, which claimed 13 lives and left more than 30 people injured, a criminal complaint has been filed against the bus driver and its owner, among others, it emerged on Sunday. Yesterday, a bus veered off the Islamabad-Lahore Motorway into the opposite lane […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-338499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n