A private bus which overturned at the zero point of the Lucknow-Agra Expressway on Monday, killing three people and injuring around 45, had five unpaid challans worth ₹ 27,000, regional transport officer (enforcement) Prabhat Pandey said.
Its papers, including its fitness and permit documents, were valid, he said.
A pending challan can affect the issuance of a no-objection certificate and the transfer of a vehicle, he added, but other transport-related services remain available. The cause of the accident is still being investigated. These are preliminary possibilities; the inspection is continuing.
“If a commercial vehicle has a challan, its other work does not stop,” he said. Initial checks suggest the driver may have dozed off, while officials are also examining whether the bus’s left tyre burst, Pandey said.
After the crash, deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak wrote to the additional chief secretary (Home), the transport commissioner, the Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA) chief executive officer and the managing director of the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation. In September, records showed about ₹ 1.75 lakh in traffic fines against a bus in which nine passengers died in a fire on the Yamuna Expressway.
