Updated On: 17 December, 2024 07:44 AM IST | Mumbai | Rajendra B. Aklekar
Ganesh Gawade, DCP, Zone V, meanwhile, told mid-day that the police had received reports from the RTO and the BEST. “The reports state that there was no mechanical fault with the bus. We are investigating the matter.”

The site of the accident involving an out-of-control BEST bus in which seven lives were lost at Kurla on Dec 9. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi
A Preliminary finding based on submissions by wet-lease contractors has revealed that the BEST undertaking does not have any training standard operating procedures (SoPs) for electric vehicles like that of standard, mechanical buses, a senior official told mid-day.
The BEST undertaking has been receiving inputs from the six wet-lease operators over the weekend.