00:01Another hour passes as we are speaking about this entire case.
00:06A little while back, you showed us the insides of the bus,
00:08which completely has been ruined and burned and charred.
00:13At this point, the investigation,
00:14we were talking about how the driver and the conductor have been arrested.
00:18But the bigger question is, what about the private bus owner?
00:21The violations that have been, you know, brought to the forefront
00:25about how there was no fire extinguisher, working fire extinguisher,
00:28there was that partition inside the bus, which is not supposed to be there.
00:32All of these violations that were there, what about those?
00:35What do the police have to say about that?
00:41Well, these violations happened today.
00:44Let them pass.
00:45What about the violations that the bus has been doing for the past many, many months?
00:49One lakh rupees.
00:50And even after that, no one ever got an eye to actually stop this bus,
00:55ensure that it is fixed because the number of chalans, almost 16 chalans are pending.
01:00The number of chalans, almost 16 chalans are pending against the same bus.
01:03Now, even over here, you can see right on top of the bus,
01:07if I could ask my video journalist Emmanuel to zoom in and show you,
01:09there are several materials that have been kept on top of the bus as well.
01:13Generally, what these sleeper buses do,
01:15they take some extra money from people
01:17and act as logistic vehicles as well.
01:21And hence, they overload the bus with flammable material.
01:24Over here, right, we are at the boot of this bus.
01:27And if I could just show you over here,
01:29try to give you...
01:30There are other materials that have been kept over here.
01:34These are nail polish glasses that have been put over here,
01:38which are very, very flammable in nature.
01:40Apart from that, there are cards,
01:42some marriage cards and other flammable documents
01:46that have also been put over here.
01:48So all these are actually very, very flammable things
01:51that catch fire very easily
01:53and it becomes almost impossible for anyone to douse.
01:56And remember, it is illegal
01:58to supply these flammable materials in these passenger buses.
02:02There are other logistical vehicles
02:04through which this could be supplied.
02:06But in passenger buses,
02:08something like this being transported
02:09is actually absolutely illegal in nature.
02:13So there are hundreds and hundreds of flaws
02:16that can be seen with a naked eye
02:18that we are seeing.
02:19We have just been reporting on it
02:21for the last, what, two to three hours.
02:23And we can ourselves tell you
02:25that how many discrepancies we have figured out.
02:28But yes, the authorities, the agencies
02:30have not bat an eyelid
02:32to actually stop this bus
02:33because of the challenge that were pending against them
02:35to even check what kind of material
02:37is being transported
02:38to check what kind of material
02:40is being utilized in the interior of the bus,
02:43how the modification has been done
02:45in such a way
02:46that it is almost impossible
02:47for any person to escape from the bus.
02:50So everything is now on the authorities.
02:52Yes, we can expect that the said owner of the bus
02:55would be arrested.
02:56But would that mean justice
02:58for the nine lives that they have lost?
03:00What about the government officials?
03:03What about the traffic police officials
03:05who are responsible for ensuring
03:07that the bylaws that have been made
03:09for passenger safety
03:10from the side of the central government
03:11and the state governments
03:12that are implemented on the ground,
03:14these people had no clue,
03:16did not want to implement it
03:17just for the sake of few bucks
03:19that they could have earned through corruption.
03:21And even the manner in which
03:23the exit has been blocked,
03:24we showed our viewers that
03:25how the emergency exit has been blocked.
03:28All this was done just for a few hundred bucks.
03:31The ticket of this bus was 800 rupees
03:33for the sleeper thing.
03:35Nine people have lost their lives
03:37because the bus owners were greedy enough
03:39to go ahead and put passenger safety aside
03:42and ensure that they make maximum profits
03:45of the rounds or the trips
03:46that the bus is taking.
03:48So will action be taken
03:49against the government officers or not?
03:50That is something that needs to be seen.
03:52And will the government
03:53actually finally wake up
03:55and ensure that all such buses
03:56that are running illegally,
03:58these are ceased or at least stopped
03:59before they follow the bylaws
04:01that are mandated?
04:02Absolutely, Anshul.
04:04Thank you for bringing us
04:04all of those details.
04:05Viewers, questions
04:07that keep mounting on this entire case.
04:10Now, as that bus is being looked at
04:13and in details it's being investigated,
04:15what were the materials
04:16that were present inside the bus?
04:19You can see there were
04:20inflammable substances
04:21that were also being carried
04:22in the very lower rungs
04:25where usually the luggage compartments
04:27of these buses.
04:28So several of these violations
04:30that have come to the light.
04:32It's a coffin on wheels,
04:33one could almost say.
04:35And basically that only goes on
04:37to prove the fact
04:39that this was extremely preventable
04:42at the end of the day.
04:44What exactly happened?
04:45Let's take you through all of the details
04:47and summarize them
04:48from what we've learned so far
04:50since morning.
04:51September 24th is when
04:53this incident took place
04:54in Great Anoida,
04:55the Yamuna Expressway.
04:56The Uttar Pradesh sleeper bus
04:57catches fire.
04:59Nine lives claimed.
05:02Now, October 24th, 2025
05:05in Kurnool.
05:07Another, this visual today
05:08that we saw,
05:09it takes us back
05:10to that very visual.
05:11In Andhra Pradesh,
05:12there was another bus
05:13that was completely ruined
05:15because of the same reason.
05:18That was traveling
05:19from Hyderabad to Bengaluru
05:20and the bus caught fire
05:22led to 19 people dying.
05:26Again, October 15th, 2025,
05:28Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.
05:3021 charred to death
05:32after an AC sleeper bus
05:33caught fire.
05:34May 15th, 2025,
05:37Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh,
05:38again,
05:39sleeper bus caught fire.
05:41Five including two kids killed.
05:42So this is a repeat occurrence
05:45that we keep seeing
05:46and clearly nothing that happens,
05:48no matter how much of
05:51we see lives being claimed,
05:53how much often tragedy
05:55it comes about,
05:57it's not enough
05:58as a wake-up call
05:59to the authorities,
06:00to the bus owners
06:01to basically at least comply
06:04to the safety norms
06:07when they have these buses
06:10running under them.
