A private firm's bus in Pune was set ablaze by its driver, resulting in four deaths and multiple injuries.
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00:00An absolutely disturbing incident is coming from Pune right now, I have the details coming
00:06in. A vengeful driver torched a bus in Pune. It was a private Forbes bus that was set ablaze
00:13by the driver. And it's not just about the bus of course. Four employees have died, dozens
00:19have been injured in the fire. So it was a bus full of passengers that has caught fire.
00:25We are trying to get more details and remember more like a small tempo traveller so to say
00:31as we call it usually which is for tours. We are told that there was an earlier rivalry
00:36incident that led to a driver pushing the vehicle in a certain way that led to fire
00:46and in which four people have died because you can see the vehicle is still moving. Let's
00:51listen in first to what exactly happened, details coming in then I'll go across to my
00:55colleague on the ground.
01:21My colleague Vidya joins me this morning. Vidya tell us more about this incident, who
01:33is this driver, what exactly happened because it's not just about his revenge, he literally
01:39put other people's life in danger.
01:41Well that sounds really shocking as you know if he really wanted to take a revenge, if
01:46this was really the way that it should have happened because it has led to you know the
01:51death of employees including you know those who are actually on a daily commute. In fact
01:57according to the Pune Police, Janardhan was the person, the driver. He had, his salary
02:04had been reduced you know during Diwali and that's one of the reasons why you know he
02:09was holding that revenge feeling of his employers and that is why we wanted to take revenge
02:17and for that he actually planned it out in a very clear manner in which he stored very
02:23inflammable chemicals inside the bus. He put on some you know rags with toners on it which
02:32would become extremely inflammable and he just had to light a matchstick which led to
02:38this entire tragedy and you know this investigation certainly you know brings to a whole lot of
02:44issue as to how you know a person of such you know mindset could have been employed
02:51by a company which has now led to this tragedy.
02:55Again raising the mental health concerns here remember because we do not know, imagine a
02:59driver suddenly decides to take revenge, nothing connected to the passengers in the bus. How
03:05is his health status? Has he been arrested? What are you picking up about the details?
03:10What is the company saying? What are the police adding further to this?
03:14Well, the accused has been arrested. Janardhan was you know in fact it was during his interrogation
03:20that they found out that he had the knowledge and it was he himself who had planned this
03:26entire execution of this fire to take revenge. That was something really shocking that has
03:31come out in the forefront with this entire investigation and the Pune police you know
03:37not just invoking murder charges but also making sure that you know they build a watertight
03:43case against him so that it could you know prove as an example for those who want to
03:50do such kind of things. So certainly the Pune police not taking anything lightly and planning
03:55to build a very watertight case against this accused.
03:57Vidya, so my final question is just a confirmation that there have been deaths also in this case?
04:03Yes, there have been you know in this entire incident you know this entire bus was on a
04:10daily commute wherein it was transporting about 14 people you know and suddenly when
04:17the bus caught fire it claimed life of four people Subhash Bhosle, Shankar Shinde, Gurudas
04:23Lokre and Raju Chavan. These are the four people who had you know died in this tragic
04:28incident and it was during the interrogation of the driver that this entire issue really
04:33came in the forefront.
04:35Terrible, four people, innocent people dead because the driver wanted to take revenge
04:40over some other issue that had cropped up earlier and against the company but this remember
04:46is a reminder of how there should be a certain grievance redressals otherwise we have innocent
04:53people just going on and about their life possibly heading to office and someone else
04:57revenge feelings lead to their loss of life as well.
05:01Vidya, updating us on this. Thank you very much Vidya.