A pillion rider in Hyderabad, identified as 23-year-old college student G Kavya, was mowed down by a private travel bus near Hyderabad’s Nalgonda crossroads on Saturday morning. Kavya was on her way to Alwal with her brother, Shiva when the accident took place at around 7.30. 

Hyd: The accident happened like. Kavya who was on her way to appear for a Railway Recruitment Board exam died in a road accident at Nalgonda crossroads after the two-wheeler she was going on was hit by a private bus pic.twitter.com/0P52qUfiqw

— Lokesh Journalist (@Lokeshpaila) November 2, 2019

CCTV footage of the accident shows that an auto-rickshaw on the side of the road may have prevented the bike from overtaking the bus, however, the bad road caused the vehicle to skid and fall.

Neither of the riders was wearing a helmet. While Shiva suffered minor bruises, Kavya’s head came directly under the back tyres of the bus. The bus driver immediately stopped the vehicle but she had died on the spot.

“They were both taken to Osmania hospital but the woman had died on the spot. Her brother has escaped with minor injuries,” the Chadarghat police told The News Minute.

Kavya’s family approached the police and demanded strict action against the official responsible for the roads in the state. 

The police have booked the bus driver for negligence not amounting to culpable homicide under Section 304 of the IPC and have taken him into custody. However, they are yet to identify the official of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) who is responsible for the condition of the road.

Earlier in October, Syed Azmath Hussain Jaffery, a Hyderabad-based journalist, had filed a case against the GHMC after he was injured in a bike accident because of a pothole.

“My two-wheeler got stuck in a pothole and fell opposite to Dr Baqer Razvi Clinic. I suffered a fracture on my right ankle. I request you to take immediate legal action against the concerned GHMC officials who are responsible for this negligence,” Jaffery alleged. 

The GHMC was booked under sections Section 228, for causing grievous hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others, under the IPC.

In October, the Telangana unit of the Congress also protested against the poor condition of roads in Hyderabad. They littered the pothole-ridden roads with pictures of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Working President KT Rama Rao. The Congress also demanded that the police register cases under Section 304A (death due to negligence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against GHMC officials for accident cases that occur due to bad roads.

The GHMC in August had identified 978 patches of roads that were in a bad condition and pegged the number of potholes in the city at 4,000. At the time, it said that it would take up restoration of these roads at a cost of Rs 50 crore.

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