Overview
- Gundla Pravalika, 24, died late on Tuesday after nearly 10 days of treatment for injuries she suffered when she was allegedly pushed from a moving TGSRTC bus on Oct 25.
- Police say the dispute began over a ticket and change after a passenger insisted her child qualified for free travel, and that Pravalika fell under the bus’s rear wheels and suffered severe leg injuries.
- Bhadradri Kothagudem police arrested the passenger identified as Mounika, registered a case and sent her to judicial remand.
- The Telangana government announced Rs 10 lakh ex gratia, a house under the Indiramma scheme and a government job for Pravalika’s mother while TGSRTC leaders called for stringent legal action.
- TGSRTC employees staged protests and a bandh in the Khammam region to demand tougher punishment and better safety measures for conductors and drivers, a pressure point that could prompt policy or operational changes for frontline transport staff.