Stopped for speeding, bus driver ‘abuses’ cop; The bus belongs to a SAD leader

Stopped for speeding, bus driver ‘abuses’ cop

The bus belongs to a SAD leader

The bus driver and the traffic policeman argue in Gidderbaha on Thursday. Tribune photo

Archit Watts

Tribune News Service

Gidderbaha, January 7

A driver of a SAD leader’s bus firm reportedly misbehaved with a traffic policeman when he was asked to stop the vehicle for rash driving in Gidderbaha today. Moreover, the accused was also backed by the staff of private buses, who then blocked the road to the vegetable market for an hour.

The bus belonged to Hargobind Transport that is owned by SAD leader Yadwinder Singh ‘Yadi Zaildar’, who is the president of Jaito Municipal Council and a close aide of Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal.

Around 9.40 am, Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Raj Kumar stopped the ‘speeding’ bus that was reportedly about to crush two persons riding a motorcycle.

“The speeding bus was about to hit a motorcycle near the bus stand. I immediately stopped the bus. When I asked the driver to produce his driving licence, he abused me,” he said.

He further said that he reported the matter to the DSP and the Gidderbaha SHO, who told him to take action against the guilty driver. “When I issued the challan, bus driver Jaswinder Singh, along with other drivers, parked the buses on the road in protest,” he added.

Courtesy: The Tribune