Mumbai, Sep 30 (PTI) A court here has discharged two senior executives of private firms engaged in operating BEST's electric buses, in connection with the bus accident in Kurla that claimed nine lives in December last year.

Additional sessions judge Avinash Kulkarni on Monday discharged Ramesh Katigandla, managing director of Evey Trans (MUM) Private Limited, and Ram Suryavanshi, CEO of Morya Trans India Pvt Ltd, in the case.

The duo had been booked, along with bus driver Sanjay More, for negligence in driver training, supervision, and deployment.

The bus, operated by the civic-run Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking, hit several vehicles and pedestrians after the driver lost control of the wheels on S.G. Barve Marg in Kurla West around 9.30 pm on December 10,

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