While a bus of New Deep Transport Co owned by Dhillon yesterday 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.
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.
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In another incident, Gurpreet Kaur, a resident of Dyalpura Village in Tarn Taran district, was yesterday crushed under a 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 yesterday's incident, raised slogan against the bus company and demanded that a case of "culpable homicide not amounting to murder" be registered against the driver.
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.
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Traffic Adviser to the Punjab government Navdeep Asija
said that on an average 5,500 accident FIRs are registered in the state in a year while their actual number is much higher.
"The government ambulances ferry 30,000 seriously injured in accidents to hospitals every year. Another 30,000 are transported by communtiy ambulances," he said.