India, Aug. 6 -- The Regional Transport Authority (RTA), along with the traffic police, inspected 941 school buses across 33 schools in the Gurugram district between July 6 and 27 and 63 buses were fined after they failed the safety audit, according to an official report.

The inspections were ordered during a Haryana Human Rights Commission (HHRC) May 5 hearing in a suo motu case related to the alleged assault of a seven-year-old girl at a private school in Nuh last year. HHRC directed district-level committees headed by deputy commissioners and commissioners of police to inspect all school buses in Haryana as per the transport department's safe school vehicles policy.

The district transport department submitted the report, seen by HT, ...