Overview
- Malabar Hill police lodged charges under causing death by negligence and rash driving against driver Akshay Avinash Surve and booked the parked car’s owner for illegal parking following the fatal collision.
- Investigators are examining CCTV footage to determine how a BEST electric bus on Route 105 operating under an EV Trans wet lease struck an illegally parked vehicle and trapped 75-year-old Neeta Nitin Shah between the two.
- BEST and its wet-lease partner EV Trans say they are fully cooperating with authorities and have pledged a review of safety protocols for outsourced buses.
- Residents and builder Niranjan Hiranandani have called on the BMC to clear footpath encroachments, enforce no-parking zones and widen pedestrian walkways on Ridge Road.
- This probe follows a series of Mumbai incidents involving wet-lease buses and has renewed scrutiny of driver training, contract oversight and urban infrastructure gaps.