Jabbar Travels owner gets bail

Nov 7, 2013, 03.25AM IST TNN

HYDERABAD: Shakeel Jabbar, owner of Jabbar Travels, was granted bail on Tuesday after completing the court formalities. Shakeel was released from the sub jail at Nagarkurnool on Tuesday after he furnished two sureties of local residents attested by the tehsildar.

However, the bus driver Feroze, continues to be in the jail as he was able to produce only one local surety. According to prison sources, only after he produces two sureties before the Kallapur magistrate with all the required formalities can he be released on bail.

It may be mentioned that the Volvo bus operated by Jabbar Travels from Bangalore to Hyderabad met with a fire accident on October 30. Forty five passengers were charred to death when the bus driven by Feroze hit against a culvert and burst into flames. The police arrested the bus driver and Shakeel Jabbar, one of the owners of Jabbar Travels, at Kothakota in Mahbubnagar.

The helper of the bus Fayaz was said to be in the hospital as he suffered some burns.