India, July 13 -- Two days after a BEST bus suffered a brake failure and rammed into 14 vehicles in Andheri, ruling and opposition members of the BEST committee have come together to accuse the administration of ignoring repeated warnings about technical glitches and red flags in its wet-lease buses.

Wet-lease buses refer to a public-private partnership model where private contractors supply the buses, hire the drivers, and handle all maintenance, fuel, and insurance.

According to the DN Nagar police, the wet-lease bus, which was operating on Route 242 on July 10, went out of control while taking a right turn. The driver, Sahil Suryakant Sawant, 30, and conductor, Kiran Appa Chawan, 35, both employees of the wet-lease operator, were tak...