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A private bus that mowed down a teenager in Mukstar and another bus that on Thursday crushed a 10-year-old girl near Makhu town belong to a transport company owned by SAD leader Hardeep Singh Dhillon, a Congress leader has alleged.
While a bus of New Deep Transport Co owned by Dhillon on Thursday crushed to death a 10-year-old girl near Makhu on Amritsar-Zira highway, another bus of the same company had ran over a 13-year old girl in Channu village, chairman of Congress' Kisan Cell Inderjit Singh Zira alleged.
Both the incidents took place in Ferozepur district.
Dhillon, who is area incharge of Akali Dal from Gidderbaha constituency and the chairman of District Planning Committee, was unavailable for comments.
The drivers of both the buses have been arrested for negligent driving, police said.
A Dalit girl, Arshdeep Kaur, was standing by the side of a road when she ran her by a bus of Dhillon's company Friday last.
In another incident, Gurpreet Kaur, a resident of Dyalpura Village in Tarn Taran district, was on Thursday crushed under the bus when she was standing along the road side, police said.
Protests by local residents and Congress workers followed both the incidents.
Congress workers led by Zira ghathered at the spot after Thursday's incident, raised slogan against the bus company and demanded that a case of "culpable homicide not amounting to murder" be registered against the drivers.
Earlier on December 11, family members of the girl and villagers protested by keeping her body on the accident spot, demanding strict action against the driver and compensation.
A mob had even torched the bus, police said.
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had expressed deep sorrow, describing it as an unfortunate incident and said that law will take its own course.
The state had in April witnessed widespread outrage over the alleged molestation and death of a minor girl in a moving bus owned by the Badal family.
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