Charge sheet accepted, 2 acquitted

Staff Correspondent: A Dhaka court has accepted a charge sheet against six people in a case filed over the deaths of two students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College in a road accident on Airport Road in the city.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Kaisarul Islam accepted the charge sheet on Thursday.

The court also acquitted two people of the case as the allegations brought against them could not be proved.

The court issued arrest warrants against two other accused as they were fugitive and set October 1 to submit a report on their arrests.

The charge-sheeted accused are the owner of ‘Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan’ bus Md Shahadat Hossain Akand, 60, driver Masum Billah, 30, helper Enayet Hossain, 38, driver Mohammad Zubayer Sumon, 36, owner of another bus Md Jahangir Alam, 45 and helper Asad Kazi, 45.

Arrest warrants have been issued against Jahangir Alam and Asad Kazi as they were fugitive.

Of the accused, Shahadat Hossain, Masum Billah and Zubayer Sumon have given confessional statement to the court.

The court acquitted Sohagh Ali and Mohammad Ripon Hossain of the case as the allegations brought against them could not be proved.

Earlier on September 6, the Detective Branch (DB) of police submitted the charge sheet before the court, accusing six people over the death of two college students in a road accident in the city's Airport Road area.

DB inspector Kazi Shariful Islam, also investigating officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Dhaka.

On July 29, Diya Khanam Mim and Abdul Karim Rajib, students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College, were killed as a bus ploughed through some students in front of Kurmitola General Hospital on Airport Road.

The accident happened when two vehicles were taking part in a race for passengers, which triggered nationwide protests by students, demanding safe roads and justice for the dead.

Diya's father Jahangir Alam filed the case with Cantonment Police Station in connection with the accident.

Angered by the incident, students took to the streets demanding safe roads and at one stage, they went on a rampage vandalising whatever buses they found before them.

In the face of massive protests, members of law enforcement agencies arrested two drivers and two helpers from different parts of the capital in connection with the July 29 bus accident that left the two college students dead.


risingbd/Dhaka/Sept 13, 2018/Mamun Khan/AI