Kurnool (Andhra Pradesh), Nov 7, 2025

Two weeks after 19 passengers of a bus were charred to death near here, the police on Friday arrested the owner of the private travel agency.

Vemuri Vinod Kumar, owner of V. Kaveri Travels, was arrested and produced before a court, which remanded him to judicial custody.

Vinod Kumar is named as accused number two in the First Information Report (FIR). Bus driver Miriyala Lakshmaiah, who is accused number one, is already in judicial custody.

They were booked under Bharat Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Sections 125(a) and 106(1) for causing death by rash or negligent act.

The bus was operating between Telangana and Karnataka through Andhra Pradesh, but was registered in Daman and Diu in 2018 and re-registered in Odisha this year.

The bus travel operator had a

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