Guna accident: Police arrest absconding bus owner
Guna (MP) (PTI): The police on Sunday arrested the owner of the bus that caught fire after a collision, killing 13 people in Madhya Pradesh's Guna, an official said.
Bus owner Bhanu Pratap Singh Sikarwar had been absconding since the accident four days ago, additional superintendent of police (ASP) Maan Singh Thakur said.
According to the police, the bus overturned and caught fire after colliding with a dumper on the Guna-Aaron road around 9 pm on December 27.
Officials had earlier said that the bus did not have the permit to operate on the route, nor did it possess the fitness certificate, and its owner had applied to get its registration cancelled some time ago.
The police had registered a first information report (FIR) against the drivers of both the bus and the dumper besides Sikarwar at Bajranggarh police station under section 304 (causing death by rash or negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide) and other relevant provisions of the IPC and the Motor Vehicles Act.
Taking serious note of the incident, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav announced the suspension of a local transport official and the chief medical officer of Guna for alleged negligence.
He also ordered transfers of state transport commissioner Sanjay Kumar Jha, collector Tarun Rathi and superintendent of police Vijay Khatri.
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Nitish Kumar's son Nishant among 32 to take oath as Bihar ministers
Patna (PTI): In a major expansion of the Cabinet of Bihar's first BJP-led government, JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar's son Nishant Kumar and 31 others took oath as ministers on Thursday in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Altogether 32 leaders, drawn from all constituents of the five-party NDA in the state, were administered the oath of office by Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain at a grand ceremony that was also attended by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Health Minister J P Nadda and BJP president Nitin Nabin.
Prominent inductees included Nishant Kumar, the son of JD(U) president Nitish Kumar, who stepped down as chief minister last month to enter the Rajya Sabha.
The BJP, which is the single largest party in the 243-member assembly with 89 MLAs, has 15 ministers, who took oath on Thursday.
Most of the inductees were those who were part of the Nitish Kumar cabinet formed in November last year after the NDA stormed back to power in the assembly polls.
The JD(U) is represented by a total of 15 ministers, 13 of whom took the oath at the Gandhi Maidan on Thursday. Vijay Kumar Chaudhary and Bijendra Prasad Yadav had taken oath in April along with Samrat Choudhary and were designated as deputy chief ministers.
Sanjay Kumar Singh and Sanjay Kumar Paswan, both from the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) headed by Union minister Chirag Paswan, are back as ministers, and so are Santosh Kumar Suman and Deepak Prakash, sons of Union minister Jitan Ram Manjhi of the Hindustani Awam Morcha and Upendra Kushwaha of the Rashtriya Lok Morcha, respectively.
