Badals’ bus kills horse cart rider in Muktsar

Tribune News Service

Muktsar, February 9

A man driving a horse cart was killed when a bus belonging to a transport company owned by the powerful Badals’ hit him near Kabarwala village on the Abohar-Malout national highway on a foggy morning on Tuesday.

Roshan Lal, 50 — a resident of Sarawan Bodla village — was on his way to Malout when the accident happened. He was taken to Malout Civil Hospital and later sent to a hospital in Bathinda, where he died.

The bus belonged to Dabwali Transport Company, owned by the ruling Badals.

The bus driver, Gurpreet Singh of Kotbhai village, fled immediately after the accident, leaving the bus behind. He was booked for negligence, among other sections of the Indian Penal Code.

Meanwhile, Roshan Lal’s relatives have demanded financial assistance and a job for the victim’s son. 

The victim worked at a brick kiln at Karamgarh village and had two sons and two daughters. 

A bus of New Deep Transport, co-owned by Hardeep Singh ‘Dimpy’ Dhillon, who is in charge of SAD’s Gidderbaha constituency, accidentally killed a 27-year-old man near Kauni village in Muktsar district recently.