RAJAHMUNDRY: Following the ghastly school bus accident in which two children died and eleven injured, the district administration has now made a case against the school management. The bus driver Bandaru Satish surrendered to the police on Wednesday. The bus accident in Gantipedapudi village of P Gannavaram mandal has shocked parents across the region. On Tuesday evening, a school bus with 32 students, on its way to drop them tumbled into a canal and caused deaths of two students.Sub-inspector, M V Prasad who is part of the investigating team, announced that a case has been registered against the school management, under sections 304A and 337 of IPC. Interestingly the school owner Hanuman has complained of illness and has been admitted to a hospital in Amalapuram. With the investigation picking up speed, more irregularities about the school are coming out, such as the institution, Sai Teja Public School has permission only to run classes from first to seventh standards. But, the school management runs classes of LKG, UKG and eighth to tenth standards, without official permission.As many as 327 students study in the first to seventh classes, 98 students in LKG-UKG and 63 students from eighth to tenth standards. The school has access to three buses. Of them, one is in a bad condition, another is kept for local students and the third bus ferries students to neighbouring villages. All the school buses have been seized.Interestingly, the school management had obtained fitness certificate to the bus on June 6, 2011, which is valid upto June 7, 2012. It is coming to light, that the transport officials at Amalapuram who had issued the fitness certificate had allegedly not inspected the bus before issuing the certificate.It is now also being revealed that the bus had no attendant to do a head count of students who boarded the bus. The attendance on Tuesday was 32 students, who boarded the bus after school hours. Of them, ten students alighted the bus at Udumudi and Yerramsettivaripalem villages before the accident and the bus proceeded to Burugulanka.Out of 22 students remaining in bus, after Yerramsettivaripalem, two students died and eleven were injured, including four intermediate students, who were shifted to CARE and KIMS hospitals in Amalapuram.
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