The private Blueline buses’ killing spree is still going on in Delhi. On Saturday morning, a blueline bus killed one more person and injured two others at 8:30 AM. The incident happened near RK Puram when a bus of the route no 621, plying between Mori Gate to Munirka, ran over three persons.

All the three persons were sleeping on the pavement near Sangam Cinema in R K Puram area. Soon after hitting them, the busr driver escaped from the scene. Earlier on Friday, another blueline bus had killed a 35-year old motorcyclist in West Delhi.

The Saturday victim was the 103rd fatal victim of killer bueline buses on Delhi roads. According to the report, at least 500 fatal accidents have been occurred in the past three-four years in Delhi.

Although the Delhi government has already been launched a crackdown against the wayward private bus drivers. This is being said that it would take more than one year to phase out all the blueline buses from Delhi roads because of the daily transport requirements in the city. The government has recently cancelled permits of at least 163 buses because they were involved in fatal accidents twice and more than twice accidents.

On November 1, the Delhi High Court had issued the order to form a team of traffic wardens to restrict accidents involving rampaging blueline buses. Former CBI chief U N Mishra will head the team of traffic wardens. The HC division bench comprising Justice Mukul Mudgal and Justice Reva Khetrapal granted the power to UN Mishra to constitute his team of traffic wardens by his own choice.

Earlier on October 10, Delhi’s Lieutenant-Governor Tejinder Khanna had issued an order to rope in as many as 80 Indian Air Force officials and 20 Navy officials on Delhi roads to control the traffic control system.

According to the report, the defence personnel would supervise the traffic control in the capacity of ’special traffic wardens’. The Delhi government has decided to give them their identity cards and some booklets describing the violations details of the vehicles committing visible traffic violations on Delhi roads.

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