Mahendragarh School Bus Accident: School Needs To Take Responsibility For Lack Of Care; Can't Play Blame Game: P&H HC Rejects Director's Anticipatory Bail Plea

Observing that school cannot "play the blame game", the Punjab & Haryana High Court has refused to grant pre-arrest bail to the Director of a school whose bus met with an accident allegedly because the driver was drunk, in Haryana's Mahendergarh.On April 11, in a dreadful accident, 6 students lost their lives and several were injured when the school bus driver, who was allegedly drunk,. Observing that school cannot "play the blame game", the Punjab & Haryana High Court has refused to grant pre-arrest bail to the Director of a school whose bus met with an accident allegedly because the driver was drunk, in Haryana's Mahendergarh. On April 11, in a dreadful accident, 6 students lost their lives and several were injured when the school bus driver, who was allegedly drunk, rammed the bus into a tree. Verifying School Driver's Criminal Antecedents Before Recruitment Is Of Utmost Importance The Court noted that, even on the ill-fated day, neither the petitioner nor any responsible officer of the school management before sending the driver on his assignment cared to check "whether the driver was in a coherent mental state and sober."