The police on Thursday arrested Karnataka State Road Transportation Corporation bus driver Nijaligappa Chalavadi in connection with a bus accident at Thalapadi on the Kerala-Karnataka border that claimed six lives.

He was booked under Section 281 (rash driving), 125(a) (endangering lives), and 106(1) (causing death by rash or negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.