Kurnool: The driver of the luxury sleeper bus involved in the devastating accident that claimed 19 lives in Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool district has been arrested, the police said on Sunday.

It has also come to light that Miriyala Lakshmaiah secured his heavy vehicle driving licence using forged educational certificates. Investigators revealed that Lakshmaiah had studied only up to Class 5 but obtained a transport vehicle licence by submitting fake Class 10 documents. ADVERTISEMENT

Current licensing regulations require those applying for commercial or heavy vehicle licences to have studied up to at least Class 8. These rules are often flouted through the use of counterfeit documents. Such flouting of rules have led to safety concerns with the number of accidents involving heavy vehicles go

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