P&H: Upholds conviction in rash and negligent driving of bus-truck accident case, declines to interfere with sentence already undergone
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed the conviction challenge in a 1998 road accident case arising out of a bus-truck collision near Panipat, while also declining to interfere with the sentence because the appellant had already undergone the term imposed by the trial court.
The case stemmed from FIR No. 216 dated 27 April 1998, lodged by Gauri Singh, who said he was travelling in a bus from Hoshiarpur to Delhi when a truck came from the opposite direction at high speed and struck the bus near Village Sewah. According to the prosecution, the collision caused injuries to...
