HC questioned AP Govt over clean chit for Diwakar Travels

Hyderabad, June 28: The common division bench Hyderabad High Court has questioned the Andhra Pradesh State and its authorities over giving a clean chit to Diwakar Travels here on Tuesday, whose bus plunged into Krishna river, killing 11 persons in February.

It also expressed the opinion that the bus operators are creating havoc because the authorities are not implementing the Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961, and this situation is leading to such accidents.

The division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice T Rajani posed this question and made these observations while hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition filed by advocate K.V. Subba Reddy, seeking implementation of the Act by the two governments.

During the previous hearing, the court had directed the two governments to file affidavits in this regard, in particular about the accident of Diwakar Travels bus in Krishna district. This bus and the travel firm belongs to AP's Anantapur MP J C Diwakar Reddy's family.