BHOPAL : Bhopal City Link Limited (BCCL)’s Low-floor Red bus crushed a woman to death at Roshanpura Square under Jahangirabad police station on Friday. Police have sent the body for postmortem.
The Bus driver has been arrested. Puja Malviya, 21, of Shujalpur was married to Bhopal-based Ram Swaroop Malviya just six months back. Her brother Brij, with her 5-year old cousin, had come to Bhopal on Bhai Duj. As Brij was not familiar with Bhopal, Puja and Ramswaroop had gone to receive Brij from Bhopal Railway station.
As per the police, all the four were on bike and Ramswaroop was driving the bike. He lost the balance while over-taking the low floor bus (MP-04-SA-1424) between Airtel Trisection and Roshanpura Square. Puja fell down and slipped under the rear tyre of bus. Passers-by rushed to rescue her but by then it was too late. She was crushed under the wheels. Police immediately sent the body for the postmortem and arrested the drive Laeek.
