Charges pressed against Jabal-e-Noor’s owner, 5 others

Staff Correspondent: The Detective Branch (DB) of police submitted a charge sheet before a Dhaka court today, 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 Thursday.

The charge-sheeted accused are owner of killer bus Shahadat Hossain, bus driver Masum Billah, his helper Enayet Hossain, Zobair, Asad Kazi and Jahangir Alam.

The court acquitted two other accused Ripon Hossain and Shohag Ali of the case as they had no involvement in the incident, said Shariful Islam.

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.

Among the accused, Masum and bus owner Shahadat gave confessional statements to the court under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

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 6, 2018/Mamun Khan/AI