India, Dec. 31 -- Santosh Ramesh Sawant, the 52-year-old driver of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) Undertaking bus, who mowed down four and injured 11 people outside Bhandup railway station on Monday night, has blamed the occurrence on confusion on the which "mode" the electric bus was on when he started the engine.

Soon after the incident on Monday, Sawant was arrested from the spot and produced before a metropolitan magistrate court in Vikhroli on Tuesday. He has been remanded to police custody up to January 3.

Sawant told the officer of Bhandup police station, both after his arrest on Monday and during his interrogation on Tuesday, that when he took over the stationary vehicle outside Bhandup railway station, at...