Even as mid-day, during a ground report, discovered the poor condition of rear-view cameras on BEST’s AC buses, the family of 17-year-old Preeti Kori, who was crushed to death on Tuesday, demanded the strictest punishment for her killer. Kori was crushed between two BEST buses when a driver reversed the vehicle at Worli Village Depot. The president of the National Sports Club of India, where the deceased’s father works, has also demanded justice. Manoj Kori, Preeti’s father, told mid-day, “Her dream was to help the family financially. I lost her because the driver didn’t check while reversing.”

On Friday, mid-day visited Worli Seaface bus stand and saw BEST officials running the services from there, as Worli Village Depot was shut temporarily since Kori’s death on Tuesday. It checked several of BEST’s air-conditioned buses, the only ones with reverse cameras, and saw that dust had gathered on its lenses, blurring the visibility on the monitor.