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Man and daughter die after being pushed off bus in India
poor Indian worker and his four-year-old daughter were crushed to death by a bus after the conductor pushed them off for not having the fare for the journey, police said on Thursday.
- IANS
- Published: 00:38 May 16, 2008
Bhubaneshwar: A poor Indian worker and his four-year-old daughter were crushed to death by a bus after the conductor pushed them off for not having the fare for the journey, police said on Thursday.
The bus conductor, who collects the fares, was arrested and charged with unintentional murder, said police officer Suresh Mishra. A conviction would carry a maximum sentence of ten years in prison.
Sanschar Toppo, 40, was ten rupees (Dh0.86) short of the fare when he got on the bus with his daughter. He got into an argument with the conductor, which escalated until Toppo and the girl were pushed out of the moving bus, Mishra said.
After the incident on Wednesday, angry passengers set the bus on fire near Jharsuguda, a village about 380 kilometres west of Bhubaneshwar, the capital of eastern Orissa state.
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