Who was driving rashly – Pilot or bus driver?
Kamla Bora in Jaipur Who was driving rashly – senior Congress leader Rajesh Pilot or the Rajasthan Roadways bus driver? After Pilot and his security guard were killed in a road accident on Sunday, the police arrested bus driver Ram Dhan Meena and booked him under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for rash and negligent driving. However, Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation chairman V N Bahadur defended the driver, claiming Pilot’s vehicle rammed into the bus. Bahadur, a senior Indian Administrative Service officer, has been quoted as saying that the bus driver was not at fault. The bus was moving slowly and the driver had even tried avoiding the jeep from the opposite direction, he claimed. However, District Superintendent of Police Amarjeet Singh said in Dausa that it was clearly a case of negligent driving by the bus driver. He was overtaking a tanker, ignoring Pilot’s jeep, he said. The manner in which the jeep had been smashed indicated that the bus driver was rash an
