PATNA: A daily wager, who was pushed out of the moving bus by the conductor for his inability to pay fare, came under its wheels and died in Muzaffarpur on Tuesday evening. The bus conductor, driver and other staff fled from the spot. The daily wager was coming from Varanasi and was going home in Sitamarhi district.
The incident took place on NH-77 near village Dariyapur Kafen under Turki police outpost in Muzaffarpur district. Even after 24 hours, police were yet to receive a written complaint in this connection to lodge an FIR. Turki outpost in-charge Ramvinay Kumar on Wednesday said the deceased was identified as Maharaj Das, 47. “He was a native of Singhchauri village under Nanpur police station area in Sitamarhi. He along with at least 12 more daily wagers from Sitamarhi were returning home from Varanasi via Patna,” he said.
Kumar said police are investigating the matter from two angles — whether the conductor puhsed him out of the bus for fare or he fell from the moving bus accidentally and got crushed under its rear wheels.
“The bus was seized. The body has been handed over to his family after postmortem,” he said.
Kumar said the other daily wagers in his group first reached Patna from where they were going to Sitamarhi when the incident took place. He said police are trying to trace the bus conductor and the driver.
