RAM DARASH Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) -Heard counsel for the parties and perused the record.

(2.) THE petitioner is driver in U. P. State Road Transport Corporation. On 6.7.2003, the petitioner along with Sri K. P. Pandey, co-driver and Sri Bhagwant Prasad, conductor was driving Bus No. 53L 9585 from Delhi to Nichlaul. THE bus was scheduled to take halt, at Sonauli, in the intervening night of 6/7.7.2003 and was to then proceed in the morning of 7.7.2003 to Nichlaul via Farenda. THE case :

(3.) IT is submitted that the petitioner immediately rushed to the spot but did not find anyone there. He thereafter went to the Nichlaul Depot where he met the co-driver and the conductor. On enquiry, he was told that after proceeding from the hotel the bus got struck in mud and when co driver and the conductor tried to take out the bus to the road, it caught fire due to short circuit and first information report had been lodged by them. The record :