Following a fire in a bus at Andheri east station on Wednesday evening, the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply And Transport undertaking decided to take 400 Tata CNG buses from the fleet off the roads till the operator and manufacturer came up with necessary corrective measures to ensure complete public safety. Though it will lead to public inconvenience with fewer services and changes in some bus schedules, BEST officials it was necessary to do so for safety.

A non-AC single decker bus on route 415 operated by Mateshwari Ltd reached its destination at Andheri station and the entire crowd got off and caught fire after sometime around 6:55pm. The bus was completely gutted in the fire. There were no injuries, but there have been cases of these buses catching fire.