Overview

• Police have charged driver R Vinod with culpable homicide not amounting to murder, a non-bailable offence, following his production before a magistrate.
• The SBS School bus transports about 30 students each day and typically picks Rajat and his sister first in the morning and drops them off last in the evening.
• After the vehicle’s door swung open, Vinod instructed the seven-year-old to close it, causing him to fall and be fatally crushed under the rear wheel.
• Vinod rushed the injured child to a private hospital in Magadi, where L Rajat was declared dead on arrival.
• The tragedy follows a series of deadly road accidents across six states in May that exposed persistent safety lapses in school and public transport.