Sayeed Muhammad: A Dhaka court has granted a seven-day remand for the owner of bus that ran over two students at Dhaka’s Airport road, triggering mass student protests across the country demanding road safety.
Metropolitan Magistrate Nurunnahar Yasmin passed the order after Md Shahadat Hossain, the owner of the transport agency Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan, was produced before the court, reports The Daily Star.
Interestingly enough, Shahadat, who was arrested by Rapid Action
Battalion (Rab) on Wednesday afternoon, had no lawyer to represent him.
The Jabal-e-Noor bus Dhaka Metro B 119297 ran over a group of students on the Airport Road in Dhaka, killing two students and injuring several others injured on Sunday.
While asked, Shahadat said that buying that bus and employing that driver was the biggest mistake in his life.
The deceased in the Sunday’s accident are Abdul Karim alias Rajib Uddin, 18, and Dia Khanam Mim, 17, both students of class-XII and class-XI respectively at Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College in the capital.
Immediately after the incident, students of the college went on a rampage, vandalising over 100 vehicles on the busy street in the capital.
From then on, the students of many schools and colleges in Dhaka and also in different parts of the country are protesting in demand of safe roads.