Badhu Samarbagh accident: Court sends bus driver on judicial remand

Driver Yaqoob was arrested three days after the incident.

PESHAWAR: A Peshawar court has sent Yaqoob, the driver of the bus that plunged into a canal in Badhu Samarbagh, on a 14-day judicial remand to central jail.

The bus skidded and fell into the canal after Yaqoob was speeding on a muddy road. The bus was outbound for Mardan, carrying passengers who were on their way to attend a wedding ceremony. He was arrested and produced before Judicial Magistrate Zafrullah Mohmand in court on Monday.

Mohmand sent Yaqoob on judicial remand and also added section 322 (Whoever commit qatl bis-sabab shall be liable to diyat) of Pakistan Penal code (PPC) in addition to sections 279 (rash driving or driving on a public way), 320 (punishment for qatl-i-khata by rash or negligent driving) and 337 (punishment for causing hurt by mistake) of PPC already registered against him.



Meanwhile, District and Sessions Judge Shahbar Khan visited Peshawar Central Prison and freed a number of captives held for minor crimes. Khan also visited the female inmates and distributed cash among the children living with their mothers inside the prison.

The death toll of the bus accident has reached 29 as four more bodies were recovered on Monday.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 26^th, 2013.