Court summons Orbit driver on handicapped man's complaint

CHANDIGARH: Close on the heels of Moga horror incident where a 13-year-old girl was allegedly molested and pushed to her death from an Orbit Aviation bus by the staff, a Fatehgarh Sahib court has summoned one of the drivers of the company for paralyzing a man in 2013.
Fatehgarh Sahib's additional chief judicial magistrate court issued summons to driver Kulwant Singh on May 2, three days after the teenager's death.Hardev Singh, a 54-year-old physical education teacher was crushed under the wheels of the bus PB03X1035, allegedly being driven by Kulwant. The bus had rammed the teacher's car on January 31 in 2013.
After he received multiple fractures and disability was pegged at 60%, doctors at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, inserted titanium plates in Hardev's legs. His car is still lying at a workshop after police attached it as a case property and he walks with a stick.
"We are thankful that the court has intervened now. Disability is something which you can't forget and I will only keep growing older and weaker from now but I will fight it till my last breath. The driver cannot escape the law anymore," said Hardev.
The Fatehgarh Sahib Police had mentioned Kulwant in the FIR but did not include his name in the challan saying the charges could not be proved. The police had instead slapped charges for rash driving and endangering life and personal safety against a truck driver Kamal Sachdeva, whose vehicle too had rammed the victim's car. Sachdeva is out on bail.
The bus driver will now have to appear before the court on June 2.
Though the bus driver did not take phone calls, Fatehgarh Sahib Police confirmed that they have received a copy of the summons.